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What Skills Are You Lacking As A Startup CEO?
“I know more about building a company than you do,” “John,” my co-founder and VP Engineering said to me. Those were the last words John ever said to me. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] John was, and probably still is, a brilliant engineer. When I successfully recruited…
Read MoreHow Hard Is It To Find Your Investors?
“Congratulations,” I said to “Ray,” I CEO I have been working with. “Getting funding in three weeks is quite an accomplishment.” “Thank you,” Ray responded. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] “Especially, after what you’d been through in your first two rounds of funding, you deserve a little bit…
Read MoreHow Do You Instantly Get Your Audience’s Attention?
You’re about to present to your audience, and there’s a lot riding on the success of your presentation. Maybe you’re trying to raise money, or maybe you’re trying to present to a potential new customer. Whatever the situation may be, the challenge is the same. You have an incredibly short time, maybe seven seconds, to…
Read MoreThe Easiest Presentation Hack You Can Learn From Steve Jobs
Watch any Steve Jobs presentation, and you’ll likely come away impressed. You’ll wonder, “Can I make my presentations half as good as Jobs’?” In this short video, I’m going to teach a simple Steve Jobs presentation hack that anybody can implement. The good news is this hack will significantly improve your presentations too. I hope…
Read MoreHow Do You Make Sure The Best Idea Is Always Chosen?
One of the challenges CEOs face is,, when choosing from multiple ideas, that the best idea is selected. What makes this especially difficult is our natural tendency to shoot arrows at all new ideas. In this short video, I’m going to teach you a methodology that eliminates the negativity, AND, at the same time, strengthens…
Read MoreYou Need A Better Reason Than Money To Start A Company
“Most startups fail,” I said to the interviewer, Dave. “If I wanted the surest path to wealth, then I would have never left my corporate job.” “It’s a mug’s game then?” Dave, said to me. Then I started laughing. [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click here.] “Why are you…
Read MoreWhat Is The Advice You Never Hear But Should Hear?
I was thinking about my Dad this morning, and I was thinking about something he told me when I was raising our first round of funding. I was going on and on, as if I knew everything about startups, and I was telling my Dad that we absolutely, positively had to raise money from “Tier…
Read MoreHow Should You Manage Your Employee Meetings?
You’ll likely get advice telling you, the startup CEO, that you should have 1:1 meetings with your direct reports. Well, that’s good advice, but the question is what should you cover in these meetings? In this short video, I’ll walk you through the five questions you should ask in every 1:1 employee meeting you’ll have.…
Read MoreHow Should You Start Your Investor Pitch?
“You never know what’s going to come through the door,” Dave, a partner at the VC fund I worked at as an Entrepreneur in Residence, said to me. Then he continued by saying, “That’s one of the things I love about this work.” [Do you want to grow your business? Maybe I can help. Click…
Read MoreWhat One Steve Jobs Decision Shouldn’t You Make?
There’s no denying Steve Jobs genius. He was maybe the most brilliant combination of product definer and marketer ever. But even Jobs made his share of mistakes. And the one I’m going to point out in this short video is one you absolutely, positively don’t want to make. Read The Video Transcript Below: …
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