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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There was no money train. And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – Objection Handling

Both Sides of the Table

As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought. It is tacit knowledge. Some examples of common objections across many companies: 1.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

Tech Zulu Event

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. We just found this hole in the fitness industry.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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How I Moved from Counting Calories to Supercharging My Workouts and Massively Improve My Fitness…

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How I Shifted from Just Counting Calories to Supercharging My Fitness Workouts This is part of a weight loss and fitness improvement series that I’m writing to share how I went from 222 pounds and unable to bike more than 20 minutes on a Peloton to 153 pounds and running 8–12 miles / day in just 18 months. On May 31st the competition ended.

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What You Can Learn About Startups From Great Cooks

Startup Professionals Musings

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. then you can start writing a recipe. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still.

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