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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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Conferences. And I get flooded with legal docs, end-of-quarter financial administration, recruiting, whatever. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? Board Meetings. Startups Are for Doers.

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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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He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. I tried it, it worked incredibly well and meeting with people (in person, in a web conference or on the phone) is ALWAYS better for you to understand their buyer needs and them to better understand you.

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