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Why I’d Rather Err on the Side of Direct Feedback Than Pleasantries

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I then asked for editing rights to his Google Doc and I rewrote a version of it. Of course I can’t write every press release for the company nor would I want to. But if my honest assessment is that they need a new CEO, need a better designed product, or similar – I will say so.

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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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It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs.

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Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years

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Yet as somebody who has to read and write decks as a major portion of his job I can tell you that most people struggle with how to tell stories visually and when I need to do it I am aware of how difficult the modern toolsets make it to do this alone, let alone collaboratively. We know that apps are fully moving to the cloud.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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