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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. So far from not taking advice from other people – I want more advice, more data points, more opinions.

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My Number One Advice for Startups or VCs: Conviction > Consensus

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It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. I watch founders who want to get “air cover” for hard decisions by getting too much input from their teams or boards.

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Why experience sharing is key to entrepreneurial growth

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Given the request for input and feedback, you might expect a presenter to receive various advice from the other Forum members. However, most Forum organizations train members to specifically avoid giving advice. Under an advice framework, my Forum-mates take turns telling me what I should do in my specific situation.

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation. Lean on advice from others who’ve been there before. What’s more, building your ecosystem upon trust and strong relationships can help your whole network thrive.

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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

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If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. But in the end they know how to put the big wins on the board. They’re unmanageable. Enough said.

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Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron?

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So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. It’s true that many VCs over promise how helpful they’ll be with introductions / strategic advice / recruiting, etc. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company.

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The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs

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I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. And few people in my experience do this well so many board meetings wander. Tags: Startup Advice. I start with answers and structure what I think the organization of the problem is. And if data is required then I apply actual data to my conclusions.