Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Entrepreneurs not only have to pick the right team members, but have to continually communicate the vision, tasks required, and provide mentoring and feedback to each member. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. World-class entrepreneurship will never be learned totally in the classroom.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Coach Customer 116

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

SWNext Los Angeles has teamed up with Cross Campus to host the 5-week class that will be led by the founder and CEO of QuantSoft, Wilton Risenhoover, who also teaches entrepreneurship at UCLA Extension. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”.

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Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Entrepreneurs not only have to pick the right team members, but have to continually communicate the vision, tasks required, and provide mentoring and feedback to each member. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. World-class entrepreneurship will never be learned totally in the classroom.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Mentor Coach Customer 108

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). Most of them pick it up fairly quickly… but some of them spend their whole careers never understanding what business they are in and think of it as a financial asset class.”. Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio).

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur SaaS 239

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

I’ve always been looking for the specific behaviors required to make the change, so I was pleased to see some real guidance in the classic book, “ The Melting Point ,” by Dr. Christian Marcolli, a world-class expert on sustainable high performance. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching.

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Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2014

Entrepreneurs not only have to pick the right team members, but have to continually communicate the vision, tasks required, and provide mentoring and feedback to each member. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. World-class entrepreneurship will never be learned totally in the classroom.

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Mentor Coach Entrepreneur Customer 103

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

If you want to attract world class talent you have to be inspirational, persuasive and persistent (they best people always have other offers). And as a VC, mentor, angel investor and founder of Launchpad LA I live it as a routine of my life. I guess the latter is harder to teach but I believe a bigger driver of success.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Customer 319

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We are happy to now support every & all accelerator in town that provides capital and office space and we want to focus on mentorship, coaching, advice, community building, etc. They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Self-motivated team members are known to be many times more productive than others.

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Coach Organization Mentor Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

You may think you need more entrepreneurial courses in school, or more advanced degrees, but in my experience it’s more of a mindset, some good coaching, and learning by doing that separates the winners from the losers. Here are some of the insights I gained from this interaction: Experience is a better teacher than academic classes.

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Coach Entrepreneur Ideas Class 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The investor must see this class of investment as completely discretionary, where all of the money may be lost, but the experience will be one that the investor benefits from and enjoys nonetheless. A trophy investor is a great coach and mentor, sometimes providing the only shoulder an entrepreneur can cry on during difficult times.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Invest Angel 83

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Self-motivated team members are known to be many times more productive than others.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Coach Organization Mentor 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

I’ve always been looking for the specific behaviors required to make the change, so I was pleased to see some real guidance in a classic book, “ The Melting Point ,” by Dr. Christian Marcolli, a world-class expert on sustainable high performance. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching.

Class 93

Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 93

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Perks include office space, prototype lab, production facilities, mentoring, and investments up to $150,000 in the first 4 months. They are just over the halfway mark with their current class and have been continuously improving their program to increase the value for their entrepreneurs, their products and their business.

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Startup Invest Chatsworth Mentor 40

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

” For startups entering program they receive investment capital, access to coworking space at Disney’s creative campus and mentor support and guidance from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities, and have a Demo Day at the campus.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2017

I’ve always been looking for the specific behaviors required to make the change, so I was pleased to see some real guidance in a new book, “ The Melting Point ,” by Dr. Christian Marcolli, a world-class expert on sustainable high performance. Set aside time to seek out experts in your field for ideas, as well as mentoring and coaching.

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Tips Class Activity Coach 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2018

Help your employees build their individual strengths with customized coaching and special assignments. This may seem counter-intuitive to many managers who fear losing their best employees, since managers never seem to have time to focus on recruiting and mentoring new talent. Inspire team members to set and achieve personal goals.

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Mentor IBM IBM Social Media 52

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

These were sports that you taught yourself by watching others, and just pushed yourself to progress for fun, with no coach or parent influencing you. I love that there are no coaches, and kids learn how to learn by teaching themselves. In a class by himself. I assume you become his mentor? This was an inspiration to me.

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Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100