The Right Way to Cancel a Meeting

Canceling meetings is part of modern day life. I seem to get so over programmed that if I ever want to have a “break-out” unplanned trip somewhere I seem to have to reschedule meetings.

You Can’t Look for a Job from a Remote Location — It Doesn’t Work

How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings

Running the “Agile” Board

Learn to Say “NO” to Meetings

As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time. Especially if you start to have a degree…

Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders.

Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be…

The Agile Board

I recently wrote an article on how to respond to board members between meetings. I basically took some time on a weekend and just…

Avoid Decision by Indecision

I recently wrote a piece about how Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved. The premise was that some leaders are too enamored with the approbation of their peers than making the tough decisions in the business that are bound to upset some people.

Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the…

The Toxic Nature of Email

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. I travelled for a couple of days for work and decided to get some sleep…