Masters Snags $2.7M For Virtual Coaching
socalTECH
JANUARY 13, 2022
Los Angeles-based Masters, a startup that lets users get coaching and training from famous athletes, has raised $2.7M in a seed funding round.
Freeletics raises $45M for its AI-powered mobile fitness coach
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 4, 2018
As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 The app, which offers fitness content and AI-powered training plans tailored to individual users, initially focused on Germany but has since grown in popularity across Europe and in the U.S.
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Edufii Scores $1.4M For Athletic Training App
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
in a Series A financing, to go towards its social and mobile platforms for athletic training. The funding was led by DFJ Frontier and the Pasadena Angels, and also included Gideon Hixon Fund, Tech Coast Angels, SLO Seed Ventures, along with Rudy Duran, who was the first coach for Tiger Woods. Edufii is led by Spencer Dennis.
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Online Training, Coaching and Instruction
SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Online Training, Coaching and Instruction. LA Web Ventures.Several members of the group have an exciting startup project involving computer assisted instruction. Come and participate in a group brainstorm where you can share your ideas to shape this product and even join the team (they're recruiting).
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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 7, 2021
An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.
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Micro–train; macro–manage
Berkonomics
MAY 26, 2016
Invest in training, and save on managing. Let’s assume you’re bringing on board people who already have expertise in their functional area (entry–level training is a whole different beast). Instead of spending a lot of time managing them, invest a little quality time in coaching them. Shut Your CEO Hole.
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Why we should fire fast, not last!
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
After hiring someone with all the attendant enthusiasm followed by the training and learning curve, if an employee shows signs of weakness in the job or problems dealing with contemporaries, it is the natural tendency for most of us to go first into coaching mode and reset the observation clock to see if our excellent coaching does the job.
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8 Coaching Myths To Avoid In Building Your Team
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching. But coaching doesn’t always work the way you expect. Trevor is a veteran coach who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs, organizations, and business families across the country.
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Where’s your team playbook? Hmm?
Berkonomics
AUGUST 1, 2019
From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.
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Could You Be A Business Coach, Or Do You Need One?
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 24, 2017
We all know some peers in business who could use some coaching to unleash their potential and optimize performance, but would you know how to do the job if they asked you for help? In an effort to help myself, I read a new book on this topic, “ The Master Coach ,” by Gregg Thompson. Self-centered members need coaching.
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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 29, 2021
It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. Terry said they have also hired their core team of seven employees and trained their first tranche of technicians. Everyone picked to go through training is paid a stipend and earn two safety licenses. Hiring approach.
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Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
After hiring someone with all the attendant enthusiasm followed by the training and learning curve, if an employee shows signs of weakness in the job or problems dealing with contemporaries, it is the natural tendency for most of us to go first into coaching mode, and reset the observation clock to see if our excellent coaching does the job.
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Launching from beta, ProGuides is making money ensuring that gamers never play alone
TechCrunch LA
AUGUST 29, 2019
When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. “After we launched the beta, we found some interesting user behavior,” says Sam Wang.
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Oakley, Intel Link On Voice Activated Eyewear
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2016
Sunglasses brand Oakley --owned by Luxottica Group--and Intel said that the two have partnered to launch a new "smart eyewear" system, called the Radar Pace , which will offer real-time, voice activated coaching for athletes. The new "smart glasses" cost $449.
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Los Angeles Dodgers Launch Venture Focused On Youth Sports
socalTECH
AUGUST 2, 2018
According to the Dodgers, E|L1 was founded by former Seattle Mariners Prospect, Aaron Trolia, and will focus on youth sports, and providing professional instruction and resources for existing youth teams, athletes and their coaches. The venture is supported by the Los Angeles Dodgers, Nomar Garciaparra and Elysian Park Ventures.
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Seismic Scores $170M, Now Worth $3 Billion
socalTECH
AUGUST 16, 2021
Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis. The Series G round was led by Permira and also included JMI Equity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, Ameriprise, and funds and accounts advised by T.
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8 Sure Signs That Your Leadership Style Needs Tuning
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members.
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142 Does your team know your playbook?
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.
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10 Keys To Real Innovation In Your Next New Business
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2023
Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. This includes personal and team commitments to delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing, and distribution requirements. Idea management.
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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.
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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Even the simplest of new technologies, such as Zoom for remote meetings, can be a detriment to work satisfaction if workers are not trained on how to use it effectively, causing video and sound problems, as well as background distractions. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team. Giving orders and assignments is not coaching.
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Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader.
Berkonomics
JUNE 24, 2021
It is hard to coach or teach leadership in a few paragraphs. Those include funding, people, training, and facilities. But let’s try by limiting this short insight to a list of the five principal tactical skills of a great leader. Fourth: reward.
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7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 30, 2021
He could have claimed that a fired employee was at fault, but instead he closed 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide additional employee racial-bias training. That means accepting coaching and seeking mentoring, as well as giving it. Strive to evolve from guru to guide, coaching others to find their own answers.
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7 Leadership Strategies That Assure Real Team Results
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 16, 2023
Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs.
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PEAR Takes On Fitness Tracking, Workouts
socalTECH
AUGUST 1, 2013
Irvine-based PEAR Sports announced this morning that it has launched a new product that uses a heart rate monitor and your smartphone to provide customized coaching and fitness training. The firm announced a system which uses heart rate-based training to customize workouts for users, via their smartphone.
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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 8, 2021
Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.
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6 Essential Leadership Practices Raise Accountability
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 26, 2022
Phrases like “holding people accountable” imply negative consequences or punishment, rather than rewards or providing the freedom and coaching to team members to choose their own actions, and pursue what matters most to them. Provide coaching and training on ownership discipline.
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6 Keys To Reducing Team Pain From Market Uncertainty
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 11, 2021
Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.
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In Wake Of Infamous Biotech Party, 20 Women Join New Exec Training
Xconomy
AUGUST 23, 2016
In other circumstances the five-day workshop, scheduled this fall at George Washington University in the nation’s capital, might go unnoticed among the sea of executive training programs offered every day. The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. Morgan conference in January.
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40 Achieve Greatness for Yourself, Become Far More Useful to Others
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 3, 2016
When I started coaching AYSO I was confused, often bewildered. ” Then I started coaching Pony baseball. That said, coaching baseball is far more work. I asked my division leader if there was a training for this. But I loved coaching. The process is a ton of work and communication is precarious.
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10 Keys to Remaining Cool And Calm Despite Pressures
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The best of you train yourselves to show emotions sparingly and strategically, while the rest are convinced that emotions cannot be controlled , and are a function of culture and genetics. Optimistic business leaders see value in every new business challenge, rather than stress and risk. Never use emotion as a substitute for preparation.
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7 Practices To Enhance Accountability In Your Startup
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
He closed stores for a day to update employee racial-bias training. Delegating control means having the right information, the right tools, and the right training to make the right decisions. They need advocates to support their position or request additional training and expertise. Effective communication of your expectations.
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5 Actions To Convince Your Boss You Are Accountable
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 2, 2021
Perhaps you need to do more to be a role model for accountability , and provide more coaching on exactly what it means. He later closed more than 8,000 of his stores for a day to provide employee racial-bias training. They provide ongoing motivation by recognizing and rewarding effort, and the training to do the job right.
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8 Clues That You Need More Focus On Human Leadership
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high. The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Managers need training in coaching, counseling, and discipline because they resist or have difficulty communicating with team members.
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6 Keys To Becoming An Emotionally Intelligent Leader
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 9, 2022
She is the President and CEO of EI Experience, and has years of experience training business leaders across the continent. I enjoyed her recommendations and real-life stories as well as her self-coaching advice, which I will paraphrase here, combined with my own insights from the field: Take a hard look in the mirror to see yourself today.
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10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 25, 2020
Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. This includes personal and team commitments to delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing, and distribution requirements. Idea management.
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5 Strategies Of A Startup Founder To Inspire The Team
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2023
I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing.
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7 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Supercharge Team Engagement
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. I saw the key ones outlined well in the classic book, “ Creating High Performers ,” by William Dann, a leading coach to experienced CEOs.
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6 Keys To Competitive Advantage By Memorable Service
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 18, 2023
For example, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has implemented a practice of authorizing employees, after relevant training, to spend up to $2,000 per guest, without pre-approval, to solve a special requirement for any guest that will make their visit totally memorable. Great customer service now must be proactive, rather than reactive.
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Will you BURN the next manager you hire?
Berkonomics
JULY 15, 2021
I urge them to coach, but not to expect the new manager to be a duplicate in style or perceived ability. It is an unhappy but common occurrence: the recently hired and trained professional manager is let go, and a new search started. Then it happens.
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8 Startup Excesses Which Will Jeopardize The Business
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 4, 2021
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. Entrepreneurs have to embrace creativity and change, yet move quickly with trained teams who can deliver repeatable processes. Business processes can be your biggest time saver, or your biggest waste.
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CLU Boots Up New Startup Center
socalTECH
DECEMBER 5, 2012
In an effort to bolster startups and entrepreneurs in the San Fernando, East Ventura and Santa Clarita Valleys, a group has just started a new Center for Entrepreneurship and Growth , which will provide training, coaching, consulting, and other resources for local entrepreneurs.
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8 Reasons Why Great People Make Processes Repeatable
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 23, 2022
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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7 Leadership Opportunities Founders Must Never Ignore
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
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. You must never be too busy on daily issues to prepare for and handle these situations. Be sure to take the time yourself to keep up with leadership trends and needs.
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