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We love the product, we love you guys, everything is great. Sorry, it’s a no. But stay in touch.
Relatively short blog today, inspired by something a friend of mine is going through right now. It brought back a lot of of memories. Unless the potential investor you’re speaking to is saying “Hell yeah!” then they’re saying “no thanks“.… Continue reading
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Bullshit questions from bullshit people
The biggest red flag for me when speaking with potential investors, advisors etc is when the bullshit questions start flying. Continue reading
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LinkedIn is Pig Swill and we all know it
After more than a decade of resistance I was recently, finally, convinced to give LinkedIn a try. Here’s what I was told: “It’s great for making connections”I have enough connections. “It can really help your public speaking career”I don’t have… Continue reading
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A brief history of bullshit buzzwords
I’ve been around the tech scene really since the early 2000s, but only professionally since about 2010. In that time many buzzwords have come and gone, and every time, I felt like I existed in this strange zone where the… Continue reading
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Everyone in the room knows this is bullshit
We’ve all been there. We’ve sat with our team trying to tweak the numbers in Excel so that our year 3 profit looks impressive enough to excite an investor, but not too impressive that it looks unrealistic. “That’s definitely in… Continue reading
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