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5 Tactics To Minimize Meeting Time And Get More Done

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Five-minute meetings cannot be five minutes of anyone talking. What is said in a meeting must stay in the meeting.

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5 Keys To Maximizing Your Impact In People Mentoring

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Five-minute meetings cannot be five minutes of anyone talking. What is said in a meeting must stay in the meeting.

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7 Scenarios Where A Business Plan Is Still An Asset

Startup Professionals Musings

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Of course that’s not disputable. He built & IPOd Demand Media. To some extent – of course they are. An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch.

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5 Ways To Improve Startup Founder Team Productivity

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Five-minute meetings cannot be five minutes of anyone talking. What is said in a meeting must stay in the meeting.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf! But the economy grows in cycles and always has: Expansion & contraction.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers). I tried to visualize how I was going to hit such a precise presentation where you get 20 seconds per slide and then they get auto forwarded.

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