Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. As a result of this activity I have now personally returned significantly more capital in my 5 years than I have invested. I have huge confidence in the companies that I’ve backed that are still active.

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Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

Irvine-based PEAR Sports , a developer of personalized coaching apps for the iPhone and Android, has raised $5M in a funding round, to go towards its mobile apps and platform. PEAR Sports said the funding will go towards sales and marketing of its mobile app and hardware. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2011

I think it takes a few more steps to “activate” the checklist and fruitfully engage in the activities that lead to leadership success. Solicit coaching and mentoring. Through such efforts, entrepreneurs who actively pursue feedback from their team and their customers are on the road to success. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

But you do need to find a way to do activities that are more scalable. These are important leveling-up activities but the CEO is often still up at 10pm f **g around with QuickBooks entries. Which other activities will get less attention than your negotiation over how the year-3 exit clause on your biz dev relationship will work?

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Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Flywheel is the developer of mobile apps to help taxi companies provide an Uber-like experience to their customers, and which is also very active in the LA market. CallFire said fitkidsAmerica will use the credits to text and call parents, coaches, and administrators in its programs.

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Santa Monica Coach Activity Platform 187

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Like the CEO of a BDC, indoor volleyball coaches can rest their players and strategically replace a player during a match. For instance, in a close match, a coach may decide to substitute a weak server for a stronger one. Results – On the sand, there is no confusion between activity and results.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2014

Rather than attempting to master the new activity, I would moved on to another task, seeking a gentler learning curve. My frustration with new activities was heightened by my desire to be "the best." As shown below, most people do not realize their incompetence at the outset of a new activity. Public Sucking.

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Activity Santa Barbara Startup Tips 275

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

According to the report, Ring's tools now provide an interactive map that allows the police to request footage from camera owners--and has actively been working on helping police "persuade" homeowners to hand over that footage. The report also says Ring is using those local police departments to boost its sales of Ring devices.

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Coach Report Los Angeles Tool 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Maverick Angels--which was founded by the late John Dilts --was one of a number of angel investment groups active in making investments in local startups, and functioned both as a place to find potential investors--as well as equally serving as a social club for the investors themselves.

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Tech Coast Angels Angel Press Coach 173

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Activities As I went through my 30+ different startup experiences and tried to classify them a bit more, I realized this is very messy stuff. That said, I think it starts with what a laundry list of different kinds of needed technology activities and what the current team can reasonably accomplish.

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Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Several times in our angel group, one of the largest in the United States, we have queried our group as to their motives in being active, risking their money, taking their time to research, perform due diligence and then coach entrepreneurs of young companies. The result of these surveys over time is universally the same.

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Angel Technical Review Coach Entrepreneur 191

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here are my key recommendations for how to prepare and what to do in more mundane business environments and organizations: Make sure your activities are aligned with business goals. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others. The same is true with team goals and expectations.

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Activity Organization Mentor Training 109

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2014

We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. Every classroom drama or school activity we were supposed to be involved with. So today should of course by Wife Appreciation Day as much as Mother’s Day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Myers, a noted career coach, and author of the classic book, “ Get The Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring ,” many job seekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts as summer approaches, believing that nobody will be hiring until early fall. Invest in career coaching. Actively work the network.

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Tips Startup Coach Networking 168

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit. I still plan to be as actively involved but realized I needed the help of some talented LA based entrepreneurs.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Southern California Tech Coast Angels 259

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

People who are anxious to improve, or reluctant to take an initiative, really need your direct guidance and coaching to learn what they need to do. Listening to customers requires your help in rewarding rather than penalizing that activity, and being the role model to follow. The right people will recognize the big picture.

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Coach Activity Customer Custom 174

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2009

Active Network , the San Diego-based operator of an online community for sports and recreational activities, revealed Tuesday that Active.com has been named the technology provider for iHoops. Active explained that, as technology provider, it will host and maintain iHoops.com, which is slated to launch in the fall. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It’s an active job throughout the entire life of the portfolio company. One of her early-stage investors, Jeff Clavier, played a very active role. As busy as I feel looking at new deals and working with portfolio companies I can tell you that this activity is one of the most valuable. I agreed to help. Ultimately Yahoo!

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Yahoo 280

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For example, Elon Musk says he seeks out innovations from his team by constantly asking them how they can make things better, how often they get out of internal meetings and into customer shops, and actively encouraging them to try new things. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team.

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Tips Satisfaction Coach Mentor 159

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Snipfeed started as a content discovery platform with 44,000 weekly active users — but when Snipfeed added a creator monetization tool to its platform, it became its most popular feature. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. With its $5.5

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Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures m, one of Southern California's most active seed stage venture capital investment firms, has launched a new effort to tackle the mental health and well being of founders, the firm said this week.

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Southern California Coach Venture Capital Los Angeles 100

Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

There are five types of resources a great board or active investor can add to a company. Further, just because someone volunteers to invest doesn’t make that person into a coach or expert, although many seem to think their investment gives them the right to be that coach or expert. Extending the Runway book available at Amazon.

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Resource Coach Activity Invest 156

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. Skipping is insidious.

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Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. They cameras have the ability to show 360 degrees and can zoom closely. Ambitious goals.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

He suggested an idea that comes from the NFL called “ The Rooney Rule ” enacted in 2003 in an effort to end the era of all-white football coaches in a league with > 75% African American players. Thank you to Kara Nortman for your leadership on the gender equality topic and your activism with your fellow VCs at Female Office Hours.

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Venture Capital Coach Ideas Startup 284

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

In your opinion, are your angels more or less active this year? We're beginning to engage them more in mentoring and coaching, and we've been known to make very, very early stage seed investments to help companies finish up their plans or prototypes, and inch them along a little more. Mike Napoli: It's quality versus quantity.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

You have to figure out when to be the up-beat coach, “It will all get better, stay confident, keep the course” or the honest voice in one’s ear, “Listen mate, you’ve been protecting your head of product for far too long. You have to deal with CEOs who resign. Co-founder discontent. Health destroying stress.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Social Network Activity Networking 143

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2023

Active listening is more important than active talking. Promote team inclusive activities and diversity. Facilitate coaching and mentoring, inside and outside. This means sending them to industry conferences, supporting professional organizations, as well as allocating time and roles for internal mentoring and coaching.

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Coach Mentor Study Activity 117

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2021

Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.

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Marketing Coach Startup Product 148

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

According to the classic book, “ One Second Ahead ,” by noted authority on training the mind, Rasmus Hougaard, there are some basic rules that can really help you manage your focus and awareness in all work activities. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

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Email Activity Social Media Coach 170

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most workers are still rushing to retirement, where they hope to escape to more stimulating activities with a real sense of accomplishment. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity. The traditional once-yearly look-backward performance paradigm has to be replaced by daily or weekly coaching focused on a career roadmap ahead.

Coach 132

Coach Satisfaction Startup Organization 132

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

What they need now is some coaching from more experienced business leaders, to catch up and overcome some unique qualms and challenges. Millennials need our coaching and mentoring to build confidence, to improve how they handle business relationships, tackle new responsibilities, and handle leadership roles.

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Tips Mentor Coach Guide 127