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

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I started advice with the premise that no amount of exercise or food eating plan would help with long-term fitness or weight goals unless you first had a mental plan and a set of measurements to track your progress. Having a positive mental outlook helped me perform better. Suddenly I look at the screen and 45 minutes have passed.

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

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans.

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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. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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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. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans.

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Embrace Losing

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It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). We helped the write out their requirements for a system. We felt this was a marquee account and one that would help us take our collaboration tool global as Thames owned assets all over the world. Write things down.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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They’re essential in helping us get our jobs done because they specialize in something we do not. They’re also good at screening candidates. If you’re raising your B round, you’ll likely get huge benefit from your A round investor helping with introductions. Middle Men. Middle People? Recruiters.