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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money.

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How I Gamified My Own Brain to Lose Weight & Improve Fitness

Both Sides of the Table

It’s amazing what mental coaching can do for a workout. “A And sometimes I need the focus on my form of “Coach Matt.” Peloton gives you individual coaches that guide you through being your best self and make you want to turn up and do more, do better and do it more often. This is when all the good stuff happens! Free your mind.

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6 Essential Leadership Practices Raise Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Make sure they are seen as based on metrics, and belong to the performer.

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Why You’re Not Getting the Most out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

These outside board members spend most of the board meeting trying to reacquaint themselves with the company’s business and critical issues. Every time I think to write a post about this I figure the most recent board meeting I’ve attended will think it’s about them so I don’t bother. Ideal Board Meeting.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. We also represent a few larger companies with international issues. You are writing about the essentials of business. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? That's great.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. VCs (and LPs) have a vested interest in having more data, whether they want to invest in your company / firm or not.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. Rob is driven to learn.

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