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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. Make the team the star to do the heavy lifting. Keep the teams strong.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Be consistent when it comes to these meetings and what you hope to accomplish, and use a template so that all the participants know exactly what will be covered and can prepare accordingly.

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Entrepreneurs Better Enjoy Getting Their Hands Dirty

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Be consistent when it comes to these meetings and what you hope to accomplish, and use a template so that all the participants know exactly what will be covered and can prepare accordingly.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Abrams, Jim Wiatt, and Zach James have presented at Amplify’s Wednesday evening mentor events. Docstoc offers a repository of templates, research materials, processes, forms, legal documents, and much more, all designed to help small businesses overcome the many logistical roadblocks along the path to success. B2B: Docstoc.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

InfoChachkie

However, if you attempt to apply this television fantasy as a template for your fundraising efforts, you will learn first-hand what the Producer of the reality show I worked on once told me. If you watch Shark Tank as entertainment and not to obtain a startup education, you will be benignly inspired by fellow entrepreneurs.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

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. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit