Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
I think my mentality to banker pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. We are judging how well you are coached on stage.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
free weekly Infochachkie articles! "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. " [Tweet this quote].
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. ” The other Paul Graham quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach. And yes, I sleep better at night as a coach. They are forwarding you set another mother f **g link to an article about your competitors. We have a little more to go until the finish line.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
free weekly Infochachkie articles! Write it down…. When I was running FUEL, I really did not have advisors – I did have a coach the entire time, who was a sounding board, but we worked on more esoteric concepts like ‘creating space’ (much longer convo) and on interpersonal relations and how to inspire growth, etc… That worked.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
A trophy investor is a great coach and mentor, sometimes providing the only shoulder an entrepreneur can cry on during difficult times. I’ll be outlining these in a follow-on article. Ultimately, it’s this intangible capability that can add the most value to the company. Emotional maturity.
Frank Addante
JUNE 25, 2015
Be your best: John Wooden was one of the greatest coaches in American sports history. As head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period. My junior high school basketball coach never told us to win a game, and somehow we ended up in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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