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

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He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Email updates frequently. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically.

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5 Ways Writing a Book Will Kick-Start Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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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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I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. I always ask the potential investor, “would you mind if I contacted Josephine Wright and organize for her to speak with you for 20 minutes?”

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. 25 Years of Writing Code. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation. million Raised.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

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I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. It’s a human being inside the buying organization who has trusted you. But you realize that you can be more helpful as a coach. And yes, I sleep better at night as a coach. Investor emails. Hell, I send those emails. Not fun, hey?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. This is something I try to coach against.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

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In the original version of his post, Andy writes. And Coach Campbell. Hard to imagine that Dick joined “organically” or that his becoming CEO also was organic. Many don’t return my emails on time. They see how hard she does her job. Not according to my sources. It led to hiring Eric Schmidt.