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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

So often I speak with companies that have charged ahead building an ultra-complex daily or weekly model with thousands of assumptions and complex dashboard outputs, when their potential investors simply want a high-level 24 month forecast with 12 months of reconciling historical data.”. HOW TO MAKE YOUR CELLS READABLE.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) We have to act quickly and decisively to set ourselves up for where we want to be as an organization, but also as a society in that new normal. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of. He was the co-founder of Intel and he probably wrote some of the very best books on modern management. He wrote a book called High Output Management. 8:22) On how crisis reveals character. (9:11)