Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time. It starts seemingly innocent enough. A person at a board meeting starts listing all the people they know at companies a, b and c.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up. Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I decided to water down some details to protect the innocent. Make it clear to him that a narrow attack on us was both factually inaccurate and that it would be damaging to our tiny little startup if he did a “hit job” on just us. And by the next week our user numbers were up. Do other outlets pick it up?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients (anyone up for a glass of OJ?). A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face.

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