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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. In creating Mentor Night , I’ve been happy to hear how giving most people are. If you present a mentor with an interesting startup challenge in a space where they have experience or expertise, the mentors are quite willing to spend a few hours to help the founder.

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6 Mindsets That Separate the Most Effective Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe these same mindsets are equally applicable to the entrepreneurs I mentor, and all of you small business leaders, so I offer you my summary of the authors’ conclusions, paraphrased here, with my own insights: Be bold in vision, strategy, and resource allocation. Get organization alignment through culture and talent.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Are You ‘Hands On’ Enough To Succeed In A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the market. If a team member has a plan that is too ambitious and likely to set them up for failure, he or she needs your direct mentoring to dial it back. Check your ego at the door.

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Entrepreneurs Better Enjoy Getting Their Hands Dirty

Startup Professionals Musings

An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the market. If a team member has a plan that is too ambitious and likely to set them up for failure, he or she needs your direct mentoring to dial it back. Check your ego at the door.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

InfoChachkie

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. Lack Of Domain Expertise - Ideal investors are experts in your market and can provide relevant, tactical assistance.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. The larger outsourced firms have a management and mentoring structure in place to make this more efficient and control quality; but that definitely comes at the cost of efficiency. What is the Rubicon Project?