Coach Entrepreneur Reference Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 6, 2014
Reference calls. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Ask for at least 5 references. As your candidate for at least 5 references. Don’t worry about the fact that these are the references that the candidate has hand-picked – that’s part of the process.
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MAY 19, 2018
Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. Entrepreneur : “Sure. Some people find this elitist?—?I
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2014
So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I think of VCs as coaches. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad.
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APRIL 27, 2014
Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. And there’s conferences. Web Summit.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 21, 2016
The reality is that entrepreneurs usually don’t have the money or time for executive recruiters to do the filtering and selection for them. On a business team, the ability to communicate verbally and in writing is more important than technical depth. Compare rankings, reference check and prepare an offer for the selected candidate.
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JULY 19, 2011
Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. Often recruiters want to handle the final negotiations on package and/or do the reference calls. I’m also reluctant to hand over reference calling. Unfortunately that’s how reference checking works.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. Skipping is insidious. Don’t skip.
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