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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Local mentors matter.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). She is a coach and mentor to team members. Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership, So What Does All This Mean?

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Tech.Co

JULY 17, 2015

Silicon Beach Startup 101 Course. A comprehensive course on how to build a successful startup from A to Z. Course Costs: 5 Days – $599 (Early Bird till July 26). What is included (5 Day Course): 5 Days of learning sessions led by 15 Silicon Beach professionals: Instructors, Mentors and Investors. Time: 9AM-5PM.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

We’ve known each other for nearly a decade and he’s been a friend, a co-investor in startups and a mentor to many startups with whom I’ve worked. So of course when Cham wanted to build his own startup I was first in line asking to fund him.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. And while none has yet had the lasting power of the much bigger NorCal successes I imagine his next moves will continue to be closely watched by those in the know and the countless younger LA entrepreneurs who count Rosenblatt as a mentor may leave an even more lasting impact. Yes, Google won.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. In creating Mentor Night , I’ve been happy to hear how giving most people are. If you present a mentor with an interesting startup challenge in a space where they have experience or expertise, the mentors are quite willing to spend a few hours to help the founder.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. What our site does, instead, is it integrates directly with a student course schedule, so you can just enter your course, and it automated the process of buying all of your books simultaneously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2017

As a long-time mentor and business advisor, I find it ironic that many look only to friends for advice. They forget that friends tell you what you want to hear, while good mentors tell you what you need to hear. When the message is the same from both, you probably don’t need the mentor anymore, but you always need the friend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Connections to a mentor. Similar to finding experienced team members, you can use university contacts who do mentoring in the real world. Business plan assistance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Of course I would like to be in every great deal ever done.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. Community builders.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

One of the attributes of this prize, is that USC is going to also conduct a business plan preparation and entrepreneurship course for the students. Mentors outside of the university will come and help the innovators and students who have come up with their new ideas, and help them to convert those into professionally prepared business plans.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Maseeh also said the prize will come associated with a new course at the USC Viterbi school, which will help engineers learn about business plans and creating viable businesses from their ideas. The Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC) is expected to have its first competition in the spring.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

And of course there are virulent debates about whether publicly funded media should exist at all. Unbiased of course doesn’t exist since we all have biases. For those in the know, Jarl has been a savvy angel investor and a mentor to many young tech founders (and a few of us VCs as well).

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

if I follow a prescribed course, I'm going to get a good picture. Family & Mentors - "A family is the people who believe in you. Mentors are the people you are copying. Mentors and role models are a shortcut to become something you believe in.". Mark explains that, “There are two fundamental strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. What is a founder to do? Triangulate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2017

In my experience working with startups, the best approach these days is to find and use a good mentor (been there, done that). Of course, mentoring is not new – it’s been the favored way to learn arts and crafts since way back in the middle ages. But I assert that mentoring in business is making a comeback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

Of course I’m not preaching crazy, irrational spend or having Kid Rock at your next company party. You can do them all yourself, of course. You’re the coach, mentor, cheerleader. And while this might sound to the inexperienced person like a sensible idea – it is not. But at what cost?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

The wisest mentor I ever had was Ameet Shah , my partner on several projects. I later took a course with Barbara Minto (who taught McKinsey people) and bought her book “ The Pyramid Principle.&# This was a breakthrough for me. He taught me much that I know about critical thinking. I’m glad I read it though.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

” Most VCs view it as their responsibility to mentor, debate, cajole and generally assist with investments they make. Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA. Before I explain, let me give you some backgrounds why it’s harder to raise money if you live outside “the zone.”

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2018

Most of our mentors are people who have been successful entrepreneurs and investors, who have been there, and understand how to get a company to the next sage. We want teams willing to take advice from mentors. Steve Blank teaches at Stanford business school, but he's open sourced the course. That was Startup Next.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

He’s an incredibly smart investor and somebody that I actually consider to be a mentor to myself. Of course I ask more politely that than. I reviewed a deal for a friend of mine tonight. He’s wise, thoughtful and has made money across so many different industries it’s humbling. But I always ask. You have a big fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

If course you can’t manage all 50 on an ongoing basis with a heavyweight touch but let’s say just 10% of them you really hit it off with and you maintain contact, emails, social mentions and physical meet-ups. Of course I could go on and on. Finally, I think it’s worth meeting “mentors.” Manu Kumar.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

See there are tons of people who play the role of mentor in their own capacity. When everything went up-and-to-the-right of course they loved their VCs. And at moments of crisis or moments of great opportunity it can often be a small group of people surrounding you who help move you carefully across a winding pass and on to greatness.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

He has built an amazing facility, has established a design-centric credo, has assembled great mentors and certainly gets access to great talent. Dave still has some proving to do, but he’s certainly had a vision, stuck to it, changed the rules of the game and proven much in a short period of time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

As a mentor to startups, I see more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer in this new gig economy. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2014

Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have “been there and done that” make great mentors. Gen-X executives are too busy running their own companies to be mentors. Formal learning. Volunteering with local organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

More like a temporary VC just to get some experience and of course we’d pay him. I am a big fan of marketplaces that really do help change people’s lives from Uber, Deliv, AirBNB and of course … DogVacay. A few years later I was in the position to hire but Aaron was way more senior than our entry-level positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. For one-on-one coaching from the startup founder, I call this approach five-minute mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2021

The best leaders are mentors to their team, and they are stewards of a company’s assets and vision. Set a course for the destination, but also establish intermediate checkpoints to assess progress along the way. Your task is follow-up in support, mentoring, and setting goals. Communicate the vision, then execute.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. The big thing for us has been those connections to investors and mentors. The feedback, mentors, and connections are amazing. My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted.

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