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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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the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I have to back up and give you more context.

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

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And I get flooded with legal docs, end-of-quarter financial administration, recruiting, whatever. Now, I’m pretty on the record that being an entrepreneur is about being great at The Do. I have written about the need for entrepreneurs to take inventory in themselves before deciding whom to hire as the rest of the team.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. It sure wasn’t when I was a first-time entrepreneur.

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The Truth About Convertible Debt at Startups and The Hidden Terms You Didn’t Understand

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My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now.

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How to Know if You Have ADD and What to Do About It

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I believe many entrepreneurs have ADD. I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. It’s why I don’t write for TechCrunch or similar much any more. Embrace it. Email twice. I have ADD.

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