Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2020

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. There are many ways to add levity to a tough challenge, and engaging the team occasionally in some fun activities will work wonders for your team’s productivity and motivation.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I think you’ll learn more in watching the 20-minute interview that Troy Carter and I did than you will in most tech interviews because he cuts down to the raw essence of what it takes any product to be discovered and nurtured and the power of being able to connect the right emerging artist with the right influencers in a market.

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JULY 13, 2020

who is based in Los Angeles--has launched a brand new startup accelerator called Product Club , which is aiming itself at accelerating a small class of product-focused startups. A former Tinder VP, Jeff Morris, Jr.--who Morris is currently a venture investor at Chapter One Venture Capital.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

According to the school, it has launched the The LMU CBA Business Incubator , a brand new startup incubator focused on companies in the technology and consumer products area. Choi--is launching with nine student and alumni companies, and provides space, advisors and mentors, and connections to startups.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Team members need your critique of their work to learn, but attacking the person is never productive.

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. You need to build that minimum viable product. Sam Teller: Great question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In fact, some totally avoid it, assuming their product or solution will speak for itself later. Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Finally, OpenSource helped a lot having realistic feedback from production, even if the project and the associated FreePascal compiler are maintained by a small number of developers, and object pascal as a language is often underestimated. Pekko is very much en-par with its legacy counterpart.

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MAY 2, 2014

Tehrani is founder and President of Allied Group, a product design and manufacturing company, and also has been very involved in the. Holly is a well known figure in LA''s technology landscape, having most recently been Vice Provost for Innovation at USC; Holly also had spearheaded similar, innovation efforts at MIT. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Local mentors matter. I figured if we couldn’t fund every company locally we should at least embrace them as a community and show that we’re willing to mentor them whether they raise their money in town or not. As was FarmVille (sold to Zynga) and many, many others. Local capital matters. So what can a community do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

I’m a total believer in servant leadership and mentoring others, but nobody wins when you are in charge as an entrepreneur, and the business fails because you didn’t do your job. Your productivity can be severely compromised by lack of balance, making you ineffective in managing key tasks and people around you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In my experience as a mentor and advisor, I find that many of you expect these relationships will just happen , without any overt effort on your part. All productive business relationships must be based on some shared goals and common interests, potentially in different industries. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. What is the Pipeline Fellowship? READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

He founded the company, raised a bunch of money, built the product and established a good reputation and market position. He has built an amazing facility, has established a design-centric credo, has assembled great mentors and certainly gets access to great talent. We only ever came back and took one of the other products off the ice.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. The idea immediately resonated. I stayed close.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

We’ve known each other for nearly a decade and he’s been a friend, a co-investor in startups and a mentor to many startups with whom I’ve worked. I would put him high on the list of startup founders who have a deep knowledge of the users they serve, what is unique about their app and how to build a product for scale. Next up for Cham?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2020

As I was watching the investor show, Shark Tank , on TV the other night, I was struck by how quickly and how extensively the sharks focused on the background and character of the entrepreneurs, compared to time spent evaluating their products. Shares views and learns from a personal mentor. Visibly demonstrate the highest integrity.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then?

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JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. It’s a buggy product but pretty damn cool.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. So What Does All This Mean? Wait, What About Yves?

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. Natural mentors – a desire to help. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more. Quantitative & analytical.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2021

Apple said on Tuesday afternoon that it is launching a new effort in Los Angeles called Apple Creative Studios, which will help provide career-building mentorship, professional industry skills training, creative resources, and access to Apple's full product lineup of iPhone, iPad, and Macs to underrepresented communities. later this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. Relationships are key to happiness and productivity. Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon, attributes much of his success to building a motivated and enabled team.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

If I AM an investor, mentor, friend or advisor I accept the email being longer. Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response. Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2020

Advisors need to be mentors, looking ahead and directing you on key actions to take or avoid. The most productive business relationships are built on trust and respect, where both parties have the other’s interest at heart. Mentors have no interest in win-lose relationships. True mentors are rarely confused with critics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Product research and prototype development. Connections to a mentor. Similar to finding experienced team members, you can use university contacts who do mentoring in the real world. Start by contacting the university outreach liaison, or a professor in your area of interest or expertise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

The confidence, energy, passion and humor that are hallmarks of Jonathan became muted in the pressures of needing to show financial successes to match one’s enormous product vision and ambitions. Do we have a heavy-touch implementation and support or a lightweight one by integrating with products that white-label us?

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MARCH 1, 2011

And he has acted as a personal mentor for Justin ever since. You have to build a product that people really love. Let me say this – whether you believe in marketing at startups or not, I think we’d all agree that you can’t have a great marketing program around a mediocre product.

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APRIL 10, 2014

The best ones bring in more executive leadership so you can appropriate allocate resources across sales, marketing, product, engineering and support. You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It has a huge impact on productivity, as well as morale and loyalty to the company. Trust causes the brain to release oxytocin, which stimulates productivity and raises motivation. He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground. There are many ways to add levity to a tough challenge, and engaging the team occasionally in some fun activities will work wonders for your team’s productivity and motivation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Advisors need to be mentors, looking ahead and directing you on key actions to take or avoid. The most productive business relationships are built on trust and respect, where both parties have the other’s interest at heart. Mentors have no interest in win-lose relationships. True mentors are rarely confused with critics.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. Improving startup productivity ? Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless.

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