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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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7 Keys To Teaming With The Right Mentor For Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Why is it that only the most successful entrepreneurs , including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson, admit to having a mentor and actually use them? Obviously, I’m a big fan of business mentors based on my own experience, since I have been at different times on both the contributing and receiving end of the relationship.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. We wanted new things to exist and to solve new problems and to see our creations come to life.

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7 Keys To Keeping Your Business Agile And Competitive

Startup Professionals Musings

That means making sure you are utilizing coaching and mentoring, as well as training to keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace. Adopt some key metrics to measure your change agility. New blood and new ideas are keys to agility. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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8 Startup Excesses Which Will Jeopardize The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Productive processes start with a plan, and end with metrics that measure value delivered. Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Bridge The Knowing-Doing Gap

Startup Professionals Musings

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. Use metrics to support judgment in decisions. What gets measured gets done.

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Developing Leadership Skills: What You Need to Know

Startup Professionals Musings

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Here are the key principles she espouses, extended to leadership teams, based on my own background and mentoring new entrepreneurs: Learn to trust yourself and your team. Use metrics to support judgment in decisions. What gets measured gets done.

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