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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

I was happy to see quantified evidence of this in a new book, “ Winning on Purpose ,” by Fred Reichhheld, creator of the Net Promoter system of management, in concert with Darci Darnell and Maureen Burns. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Inspire your teams with love and affirmation.

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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Training and coaching. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Net result and reward.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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