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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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It’s your job to help them get oriented with the right amount of information so that when you come together you can focus on making good decisions or at least helping you discuss difficult topics rather than spending all of your time informing them. In the Early Days. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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Beware The Consultant

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Be The Beatles Not The Flock Of Seagulls John Greathouse’s Bio ConTraps Part 2 ConTrap Part 3 ConTrap part 4 Startup Children Pt 2 Startup Children Pt 5 Startup Children Pt 3 Startup Children Pt 4 Decision Making 101 Talks: Jason Nazar on how to Persuade. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. infoChachkie.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

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His enthusiastic response was, “This will revolutionize marketing departments!” Caught up in the enthusiasm of hearing what a great idea we had, I violated one of my cardinal rules, and left him a hard copy. Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. This time it was serious.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Very few people have all three skills, and even if they come close, they are rarely in perfect balance. In modern business Steve Jobs is probably the only person who even comes close, which arguably took him 25+ years. Marcin Grodzicki • Nov 16, 2010 If it comes to start-up environment, I think developer can also be the designer.