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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Ramping up sales teams too quickly and eroding quality & trust in your customer base. Mentorship.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. Ask your customer why you lost. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. Ask your customer why you lost. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

Both Sides of the Table

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage.

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Female Founders and CEOs | Valerie Brennan of Three Day Rule

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Took some time to crunch the numbers and evaluate our findings before re-circling back in 2009 and beginning what started as a blog. A blog with our reviews of the scene, locations, etc. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching.

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