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Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO

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Many times they also pick up product and tech, too. Often times you find the CEO who really just likes to do product or tech. Similarly I talk to CEOs who can’t do a sales pipeline review with me. I once did due diligence on a potential investment where the CEO was projecting $9 million in sales for his next 12 months.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. Making Things Happen.

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The Perils of Founder Fighting

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I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Yet talk with people at Twitter these days and many seem to feel like they are part of a movement – and that doesn’t just come due to product success. Those are the easy cases.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. Getting excited about a company at a conference and investing is a sucker’s bet.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I spent time on college campuses.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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There are people like Gus Tai who any entrepreneur who’s worked with him well tell you is that he has helped coach them into building a great business. They work for a prestigious firm, have sat on big boards, went to HBS and speak at lots of conferences. He also had experience in setting up tech development centers in India.