Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This must include metrics and tracking, with the necessary systems and resources to act, recalibrate, and iterate as required. A change process gives you and your team a structure for execution, and clears the desk of non-value-added activities to focus on the strategic work. The process must focus not only on the “what,” but the “how.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Inspire your teams with love and affirmation.

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Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2016

One of the CEOs I coach starts his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. He tries to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

Team members who work remotely are also easily forgotten in their need for shared play activities outside of work. Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others. Provide coaching and facilitate mentorship from others in the company for growth. Make time for play as well as work.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Use self-study and coaching as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Focus on activities rather than results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that absorbs resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Focus on activities rather than results.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. Each local participating VC will base themselves out of this facility at least 1 day / week and plan to spend time actively with any company that is admitted into Launchpad LA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. They'll take the risk of chocolate cake over the risk of diabetes in five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Focus on activities rather than results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

Practice active listening and full attention to those present. That means a priority on coaching and mentoring, as well as training and tools, before focusing on results metrics. They show empathy to constituents around them, encourage followers to step outside their safe zone. Eliminate the use of “off-the-record” comments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Most successful business people, whether retired or still active, would love to share some of the wisdom they have gained from their own experience, but are not inclined to impose themselves on others. Most mentors don’t have the time to be your business coach to help you with generic skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

If you want to improve your strength in this area, or need to coach your team along these lines, I recommend the following steps: Approach every problem as a positive business opportunity. The best entrepreneurs drive responsibility down to the relevant person, rather than trying to orchestrate all activities and tracking personally.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Get board members to help me with things they are uniquely positions to help with – mostly introductions, recruiting or coaching my team members. In my nearly 15 years of attending board meetings I can tell you that the distribution of time actually spent on these activities while you’re in person is more like: 1.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” It provides a more active opportunity for people to get to know each other, and in more detail. That's great.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

We did some outbound sales & marketing, we responded to some inbound enquiries that came “over the transom” from marketing activities and we responded to RFPs (requests for proposal). I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

Simply, MapMyFitness allows users to accurately track and map out running, cycling, walking, and other outdoor activities. Metrics are important for any fitness buff and MapMyFitness does the job well by providing necessary data such as calories burned, distance traveled, time spent on workout, etc., month or $29.99/year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In Rob’s spare time he always seems to be going to a boxing class or some other competitive, physical activity. When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. Fight hard, yield when appropriate and always be willing to take feedback. Rob is driven to learn.

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