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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. Reference Calls I do the exact same for reference calls.
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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
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. You can’t reference check your way into a “yes.” Reference checking is to confirm or disprove a strong, positive intuition you already have about founders that could lead to an investment or a pass.
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JULY 19, 2011
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. I know that no recruiter will agree with me on this point, but I’ll tell you that I’m certain there’s a positive bias in reference calls. Highly ethical.
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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.
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FEBRUARY 5, 2011
I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Customer also buy social proof because others are acting as strong references. Please call our references.
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