socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Coach 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

These authors reference real cases and real business leaders, based on their decades of experience in building companies and executive coaching. I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Coach Mentor Customer 143

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

External customer loyalty and motivation used to be as simple as good customer service, but today’s customers expect more. Spend more time coaching and mentoring your team. They must be inspired by your coaching to create a better future for everyone. Don’t be reluctant to seek and recognize help from others.

Coach 144

Coach Customer Custom Entrepreneur 144

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Entrepreneurship is all about leading – leading customers to a new product or service, leading a startup team to peak performance, and leading a new business to the market opportunity, while providing maximum return to stakeholders. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. People ignored see no leadership.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur Mentor Coach Customer 116

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. Let your team members feel that they are constantly learning new things, and allow them to share their talents through coaching and mentoring assignments.

Technical Review 141

Technical Review Mentor Social Media Customer 141

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Entrepreneurship is all about leading – leading customers to a new product or service, leading a startup team to peak performance, and leading a new business to the market opportunity, while providing maximum return to stakeholders. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. People ignored see no leadership.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Mentor Coach Customer 108

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The real unique part of this program, which I'm excited about, is the marriage between the mentoring that a company could receive from both those with an entrepreneurial startup background of Techstars, and the deep, vertical knowledge of clinicians or healthcare administrators, who have been doing healthcare work for a while.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The real unique part of this program, which I'm excited about, is the marriage between the mentoring that a company could receive from both those with an entrepreneurial startup background of Techstars, and the deep, vertical knowledge of clinicians or healthcare administrators, who have been doing healthcare work for a while.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

Coach 114

Coach Framework Entrepreneur Tool 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2014

Entrepreneurship is all about leading – leading customers to a new product or service, leading a startup team to peak performance, and leading a new business to the market opportunity, while providing maximum return to stakeholders. Coaching and mentoring are key to the leadership role. People ignored see no leadership.

Mentor 103

Mentor Coach Entrepreneur Customer 103

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. The ability to pivot quickly is a key to success.

Startup 114

Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That means starting your search through contract services sites, rather than conventional career hiring sites. By hiring contract experts, less oversight and coaching is needed. Freelancers and consultants have to demonstrate results, without training and mentoring, so they can help you more quickly and probably at a lower total cost.

Competition 168

Competition Startup Demand Training 168

Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Susan is a startup coach and the founder of Givelocity, a social network for giving that offers a new spin on crowdfunding for good. She later joined forces with the founding team at PayPal to help launch the influential online payments service. She’s also an advisor, mentor and investor in several startups.

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Santa Barbara Startup Mentor Social Network 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

Product 103

Product Coach Framework Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Customer feedback in the form of online reviews and poor customer service is often rationalized as unreasonable expectations or one or two crazy individuals. You can’t find the time for coaching and mentoring. Maybe now is the time to bring in outside coaching and motivational speakers, as well as more training.

Coach 120

Coach Satisfaction Customer Custom 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Coach Framework Tool 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2022

A truly fulfilled life means meeting the four core needs: acceptance, connection, purpose, and service. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. It’s vital to have a specific plan for meeting those needs. Fulfillment is a choice.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction Mentor 153

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

Coach 96

Coach Framework Entrepreneur Tool 96

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

If you are a recent college graduate, mentor college students. Create a community service project, raise a small venture fund to capitalize student companies – whatever you do, it should be bold and force you to call upon all of your startup talents. Get A Coach. If you are in college, advise a High School entrepreneur club.

Company 80

Company Companies Startup Mentor 80

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2023

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance.

Startup 135

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Course 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2013

It extends directly to your customers through dependable products and services. The best time to address expected norms is before hiring, and mentoring with one-on-one conversations must supplement rulebooks. Entrepreneurs need to clarify expectations and rule relevance, mentor employees, and reward compliance.

Startup 106

Startup Guide Mentor Organization 106

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications. Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world.

Google 87

Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Yet if you already have some early adopters, that's a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Startup Statistics Course 121

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

In most businesses, this means selling something, and proving that your product or service has value. Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Even though profit may not be your driving motivation, you can’t sustain any business without generating cash. Make sure someone is managing people and operations.

Metrics 140

Metrics Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2020

For example, most professional services and consulting startups today are led by more experienced professionals who worked in business for many years before they decided to strike out on their own with their own brand of solution to a commonly seen requirement. You also know when to say no, and don’t try to solve every problem.

Startup 129

Startup Entrepreneur Coach Mentor 129

Tech.Co

JULY 9, 2024

The lucky winner of the grant scheme receives a total of $50,000, alongside one full year of AT&T service with a brand-new device, and will be featured on an episode of AT&T’s sponsorship program She’s Connected. They get featured on the Shorty Award’s website and get free personalized bookkeeping coaching from Wave.

ChatGPT 149

ChatGPT Writing Commerce News 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2012

It extends directly to your customers through dependable products and services. The best time to address expected norms is before hiring, and mentoring with one-on-one conversations must supplement rulebooks. Entrepreneurs need to clarify expectations and rule relevance, mentor employees, and reward compliance.

Company 93

Company Companies Guide Mentor 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2014

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Yet if you already have some early adopters, that''s a good indication that real marketing and education will likely bring your product or service mass acceptance.

Startup 110

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Course 110

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. It’s important to learn from peers, advisors and mentors that the required mindset must be combined with specific actions, including the ones outlined above, before value can be harvested.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Training Demand Customer 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2017

Establish mentoring and coaching relationships. Mentoring is a less formal arrangement for long-term career guidance, while coaching is a more formal association focused on improvements in behavior and performance in the current job. Potential is enhanced in a learning culture.

Coach 57

Coach Mentor Organization Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2022

In addition to good customer service, they are now expecting a total memorable experience , from quality, to shopping, and delivery. Mentoring and coaching are also important. It’s no secret today that customers are more demanding than ever. No team member leader can afford to ignore customer views.

Customer 110

Customer Custom Coach Organization 110

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. You can’t build a positive team culture, while taking obvious shortcuts on your solution quality or customer service. Commit to delivering a positive customer experience.

Product 109

Product Training Customer Custom 109

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Works with other team members on mutual aspirations (coach metaphor). Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

Coach 64

Coach Framework Entrepreneur Tool 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

The days of pushing new and marginal performers into customer service are gone. A mission of superior customer service is more than words in the board room or words in front of customers. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Every job on your team drives your customer experience.

Customer 55

Customer Custom Startup Coach 55

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A truly fulfilled life means meeting the four core needs: acceptance, connection, purpose, and service. Brian defines an effective Court of Support as one professional coach, one accountability partner, one mentor, and six to nine group members. It’s vital to have a specific plan for meeting those needs. Fulfillment is a choice.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction Mentor 97

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. We use all of this to recommend ways to optimize your wellness.

Coach 100

Coach Startup Study Venture Capital 100