Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The goal for this organization is four-fold: To provide mentorship for some of the most promising young companies based in Los Angeles or willing to relocate to LA. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in. For the past 2.5 ” We get feedback like this often.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Today, we share the thoughts of Greg Monterrosa ,a startup community leader who is currently Startup Weekend organizer, facilitator, and mentor and was a former Founder of MyLLC.com and Hub101. It takes a community of supporters, connectors, mentors, and doers to make it happen. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Among the areas the two will work on are working with investors, companies and others in creating programs and events targeted at the entrepreneurial community, and connecting start-ups, entrepreneurs and prospective venture capital and mentors. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She is the disciplined, organized and detail-oriented member of the Suster household. You won’t really have a mentor unless lightening strikes. But if you seek one out, most talented employees would gladly become your informal mentor. She’s a Brown undergrad, Wharton MBA, ex strategy consultant and ex Googler.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. When we started I told everybody we would run the organization as a startup itself. We decided to be less formal about the mentor / mentee relationships.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance. Renowned as one of the leading projects of its kind, it benchmarks the peak performance of server-side web application frameworks and platforms, primarily using tests contributed by the community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors.

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

You finally need to start planning your product roadmap a bit further than your 2-week sprints so that the rest of the organization has a chance to preplan for new features. The C-round CEO still gets her hand dirty but shouldn’t be a control freak or become a bottleneck in the organization. But you have him now.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup. Learning, Networking, Mentors From the question, this person is clearly looking at the issue of how to grow into this role. Here's a dirty secret about most startups.

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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. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. Quantitative & analytical. Community builders.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Touted as both the first and largest of its kind in Europe, the more than 300 attendees will go through a weeklong boot camp where they will network with other entrepreneurs and pitch to more than fifty business mentors and investors.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. Many experienced entrepreneurs choose to go through an accelerator because of the network effect and the dynamics of the mentor help that they get.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2021

The scope of the positive leadership views included human nature, organization life, and personal purpose. Find and enjoy the company of one or more mentors. The leadership benefits of mentoring start in childhood, but are just as important at the mature CEO level. That means all of us have a chance.

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Southern California has the one of the largest gathering of organized angel investment groups, and a huge crop of startup accelerators: there's only one problem, which is they don't naturally work together. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasnt. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They've provided a completely free facility, furniture, Internet access, mentoring, sponsorship--all of those things are provided for free. CommNexus is the parent organization for EvoNexus. On top of that, there is mentoring companies get from the community, and the executive we pull in. So, that't the foundation.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Kozlov, a longtime Techstars network fixture, has previously served as the head of the organization’s healthcare accelerator through a partnership with Cedars-Sinai and as the head of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator, which was focused on space and aerospace startups. “I’m

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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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. This is generally how I try to organize my own views and how I try to give advice. Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. What is a founder to do? Draw from Frameworks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Start by contacting the law school organization. Connections to a mentor. Similar to finding experienced team members, you can use university contacts who do mentoring in the real world. These might even be available online, and may be staffed by outside lawyers working on a ‘pro bono’ basis with the school. Building a team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2021

Here are the key recommendations from both of us, based on my own business mentoring insights: Re-launch using your enhanced core competency. A few are able to move to higher platform, like moving from a sole practitioner physician to create and run a much larger medical organization. Find mentors who have the skills you lack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2022

The authors observe that people who behave as mentors tend to have an uncanny ability to recognize and nurture people who have innate capabilities along these lines. They believe that questioning is of value and benefit to the organization. Here are six of the characteristics they and you should look for: Problem solvers.

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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 start with answers and structure what I think the organization of the problem is. He taught me much that I know about critical thinking. He coached me that I had to start with the answers. This and frankly a lot of practice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors. They provide peer group organizations, usually called incubators, with free resources, practice environments, and outside mentoring that can help you learn and pivot with minimal cost. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning. Learning by doing is the only way to go.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They've got a program called Springboard, which helps really young companies get set up with mentors, and guides you through the startup process. They act as mentors and help companies grow. Anytime a student buys a book or product, the club or organization is able to raise some money from that purchase. Thanks, and good luck!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

It helps you do better at your job because you can draw on the advice of people across many organizations. Finally, I think it’s worth meeting “mentors.” You might first seek to meet your peer group in comparable jobs at similar companies. Having a peer group of people “like you” is incredibly helpful.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 30, 2019

During this meeting, emerging companies will make presentations to the SoCalBio Company Screening and Mentoring Committee. This meeting is one of numerous company screening sessions organized by the Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio) in preparation for the 21st Annual SoCalBio Conference to be held on September.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. Fortunately, a number of post-Accelerator organizations have arisen to address this need. Having people being captive within some investor’s…sphere.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Organic Academia. Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. Salty Girl Seafood - Another focus of the TMP is the recruitment and mentoring of women entrepreneurs.

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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. If you wake up one day in any organization and you realize that you’re no longer “part of the solution” it’s time to get the fuck out of the way. They never lead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2021

Organize your work before you begin. Most startups begin first, and think about organization later. Organizing means bringing together the necessary resources, and assembling the right people, then assigning work to specific people to be accomplished at specific times to specific standards of performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

That’s why I was pleased to see the balance on people versus process in a classic book on how to fix your organization, “ The Diamond Process ,” by Mike Diamond and Christopher Harding. Effective communication in a rapidly changing environment must be two-way and continuous, from all levels of the organization.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2019

Coupled with the launch of a new networking application called AllBright Connect and the company’s AllBright Magazine, the women’s networking organization is on a full-on media blitz. The company said that the new facilities would be opening in the coming months.

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