Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them nearly ten years ago. They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Their success is now vital to our success. Lack of knowledge can prevent it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

As a startup investor, I view any evidence of a victim mentality as the kiss of death. In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in the classic book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Accountability starts by acknowledging reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup. So what if you’re already a mid-stage startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The experts define emotional intelligence as a leader's ability to recognize individual and team emotions, to understand their effect, and manage your own to guide your next move. However, when aspiring leaders ask me how to ramp up their emotional intelligence, I’ve never been able to offer any real formula.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2022

In a classic book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. From balance to focus.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2016

The startup, led by Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, develops VERA, a software product which is aimed at the physical therapy market. The company's VERA product uses Microsoft's Kinect controller to help monitor and guide patients with their PT exercises. The funding came from current investor West Partners and others. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Case Foundation (Washington, DC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2018

Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them almost ten years ago. They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Their success is now vital to our success. Lack of knowledge can prevent it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2013

As a guide, I enjoyed the analysis of Eric Chester, in his book “ Reviving Work Ethic ,” which provides a leader’s guide to ending entitlement and restoring pride in the emerging workforce. Reliability begins with showing up – being where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. Integrity and coach-ability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

After many years of working in and starting businesses, I’m convinced that implementing new business ideas is much more difficult than coming up with the ideas. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. This is an important step in self-coaching, and in coaching others on the team.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

As the NBA playoffs closes to an end in a grueling road to Game 7 between Miami Heats and San Antonio Spurs, it would behoove every startup founder to learn from key elements and strategies of both teams, as lessons from the sport of basketball can directly translate to the success of a startup company. 1) Identifying Team Chemistry.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Car companies, insurance companies and start-ups are all providing options for concerned parents interested in keeping a virtual eye on Little Johnny behind the wheel. It is a free 100 hour coaching program to help new drivers improve their driving with data-driven feedback. Tools from Car Companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I found some great insights along these lines in the classic book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Adeo Co-Founded the entrepreneur-friendly website The Funded and he is the Founder and CEO of The Founder Institute , whose goal is to create and foster local startup ecosystems across the globe. The funded was really started as a way to counterbalance the bad behavior and harsh economic terms that the venture capitalists had adopted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

In the spirit of helping you avoid some of our own learning experiences with startups, I will paraphrase here the nine key stages that he and I both see most businesses going through in their evolution from a startup to a successful and stable entity: You can’t sustain a business without positive cash flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Like most investors in startups, I rank the credentials of the team well above the value of an idea in deciding where to put my money. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I found some great insights along these lines in the classic book “ Find Your Balance Point ,” by renowned executive business coach Brian Tracy, and work-life balance therapist Christina Stein. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

As a startup investor, I view any evidence of a victim mentality as the kiss of death. In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in a new book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Accountability starts by acknowledging reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In a classic book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. From balance to focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arivale (www.arivale.com), a startup founded by Dr. Leroy Hood, the well known DNA and genomics pioneer�which combines gene sequencing with a host of other diagnostic tests, with personalized counselors and health and wellness recommendations, recently launched an expansion into California, starting in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Every business owner and professional I know is struggling with their own workload, yet they let themselves get signed up for other people’s work, either out of frustration that things aren’t getting done, or guilt, or just plain sympathy. Offer one-minute mentoring up front, and stick to it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2015

In a recent book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. From balance to focus.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2014

I travelled up the Killer Curve by incrementally celebrating extremely small successes. You''ll be on your way up! According to Kirsty, "When I first started public speaking. Experiencing the feelings of a neophyte will make you more sympathetic the next time you coach someone at a task in which you excel. Left Australia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

In a classic book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. From balance to focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2010

Use this as a roadmap to guide and measure your successes and failures. The simplest way to start is to identify channel partners (also known as distributors) to handle your business in specific and well-defined geographic regions. You may want to give a channel partners a head start of a certain time period.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

They become obsessed with why the problem exists and they start chipping away at ideas for solving the problem. We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. At best they can be your history guide. Startup Lessons'

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). It is not about leaders becoming coaches; it’s about leaders letting themselves be coached by others – advisors, team members, and even customers. Up-line this may be your interaction with your Board, investors, and family. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2010

Women entrepreneurs are starting small businesses at approximately twice the national average for all startups. As a result, there have also been many new resources popping up specifically aimed at women. There are many step-by-step guides available, like the one referenced above for women. Plan for funding requirements.

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