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Why experience sharing is key to entrepreneurial growth

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A Forum, which is also often referred to as a Mastermind, is a group of peers who meet regularly, with the goal of helping each member improve personally and professionally. In a standard Forum meeting, a member makes a presentation about an opportunity or challenge they are facing and asks for the group’s input. In my experience.

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How to Manage a Board

Y Combinator

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. I described that phenomenon in this post.

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

Both Sides of the Table

A company presents. I watch founders who want to get “air cover” for hard decisions by getting too much input from their teams or boards. I saw this Tweet recently by Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance. conviction > consensus. Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. He took two words where I take 1,000!

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How a Tourist Can Help you with Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I saw it as my job to probe, challenge, question, analyze, present facts and summarize options but in the end to leave it do the client to own the results. There’s a famous line about consultants that clients love to repeat, “consultants take your watch and then tell you the time.&#. Such is leadership. You really know your town.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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Succeeding in Venture Capital is Mostly About Knowing What to Buy. But When To Sell Matters Also.

Hunter Walk

The surplus of capital also meant that new funding rounds often presented opportunity to sell portions of equity to current investors who otherwise were seeing their pro rata allocations cut back. Primary Thoughts About Secondary Transactions. As my man Kenny Rogers sang ….