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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. If deals drift people start whisper campaigns. Let me start with a story.

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6 great athlete-entrepreneurs and what they accomplished

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In 1999 Foreman sold the rights to the George Foreman Grill for $137 million. Williams currently is the founder and CEO of her interior design firm “V Starr Interiors,&# has her own fashion line and is a part-owner of the Miami Dolphins NFL franchise. Venus Williams. an operator of roller hockey rinks.