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Form A Heavenly Advisory Board

Mike Michalowicz

This got me thinking, I need to have a “Heavenly Advisory Board.” I thirst for the wisdom from the likes of Harold Thurman Whitma n (1899-1981), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001), Michael Gerber (still very alive and kickin’ and playin’ the sax ), and many others.

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

Duct Tape Marketing

From, you know, when I first stood up, my very first e-commerce site literally was in 2001 , I was Eloqua or Eloqua's beta client and constant contacts beta client. My ask would be the next time you do or say something on behalf of the customer, like I've got a customer advisory board. Do you have an employee advisory board?

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Guide to asking for advice #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

Considering his company at this size reminds me a LOT of my company at the same size in 2001, it was a blast to compare and give them advice and share my experiences. One of the things I talked to them about was the importance of getting good advice, be it from a formal advisory board or individual mentors.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

I’m convinced that if I hadn’t made the decision to “Stand & Deliver” and focus, which is so important for a startup to do, Coremetrics would have failed in 2001 and almost no one reading this post would have ever heard of the company. And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many.

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David S. Rose – Father of Angel Investing in New York

Startup Professionals Musings

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Marty: Were your own first investment ventures a positive and learning experience?

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