Heuristic for when to hire employees vs hiring consultants
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Data maturity depends on industry.
But all industries are getting more data oriented really quickly
Conflict can be good
Conflict is needed to make movies more interesting.
Conflict is also need to make meetings more interesting.
Diagram of how to make an email introduction
Self management is highly correlated with being a 10xer
When raising money, never be “oversubscribed” — it is like bragging about the IPO pop
Your fundraising pitch gets better over time … so save some of the best VCs for later on the process
Optimal number of people needed to raise money
A successful Series B raise will take a ton of time from the CEO and the Head of Finance.
But hopefully no other people in the company need to spend their time on fundraising.
There are some that claim raising money is easy. It never is. It is always hard.
When doing diligence on a company, real customer calls > calls from GLG
VCs should spend less time optimizing for the small terms
In many venture financings, it now takes longer to go from accepted term sheet to close than is does from early pitch to accepted term sheet
