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A Mental Model For VC Investments
A reader asked me the other day if – in the words of Charlie Munger – I have a “mental model” for investing in early stage companies. I do, but I’d rather give examples of the two best approaches I’ve heard of from other people.
Marriage
As the 10th of 12 children, my older brothers and sisters obviously got here many years before I did. Two of my older brothers and two of my older sisters had failed marriages. Since I was at the bottom of the production chain, my younger brother and I had the benefit of what my mother had observed and taught us. She pointed out that we should never date a girl more than once or twice if we discovered we would be unwilling to have her as the mother of our children and be unwilling to take her wherever we were and introduce her with pride to anyone. I listened intently to what my mother had to say. I chose carefully.
The chicken and the egg
I was riffing with someone about an idea last week and I told him he had the, "chicken and an egg problem." It seemed like he knew what I meant, and I thought I knew what I meant, but I've since decided it's worth a few paragraphs.
Hitting The Bull's Eye
Somebody once said the difference between a big shot and little shot is that the big shot was the little shot who kept on shooting. There's much truth in that witticism. The reality is, no matter what our target might be, we seldom hit it on the first try unless the target is low, which means the accomplishment--and the rewards--will be insignificant.

Failure Comes From Not Following Your Additive Rules
The cliche “rules were meant to be broken” is a common one in the world of entrepreneurship. Paul Berberian – a great entrepreneur (and dear friend) almost died yesterday when flying his airplane because he broke three of his rules of flying in a row. Paul got lucky and I very glad he’s alive.
Death, Public Speaking, and Seniors' Homes
Lots of us like to blithely retail the cliche about people being more afraid of public speaking than death, but I was caught up abruptly by an analogous finding in scanning some market research today on senior citizens in America:

Ambition - Good or Bad?
An anonymous writer said that ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good. It will turn the wheels of industry and open the door of opportunity for you and countless thousands of other people. Fueled by greed and the lust for power, ambition is a destructive force that ultimately does irreparable damage to the individual in its grasp and to the people within its reach.

Please Someone Shoot These Buzzwords!
There are words and phrases used over and over, in fact "over and over" is one of them that are so tired and cliche that they should be taken out and shot or at least retired or admitted to a nursing him where they can rest in peace.

Thank God It's Monday?
70% of Americans state they do not like their jobs. Entrepreneur magazine recently reported there is a 33% increase in the number of heart attacks on Monday mornings and a 25% increase in work related injuries on Mondays. The Center for Disease Prevention in Atlanta says there are more deaths at 9:00 Monday morning than any other time of the day, or any other day of the week.
Home Business Expert: Top 15 Ideas For Writing Articles
The phrase 'content is king' might be somewhat of a cliche, but on the Internet this is extremely true.
Ten Reasons Businesses Fail to Make Business Networking Work for Them
With the New Year fast approaching, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what you might be doing to stop yourself making the most of your business networking. Have a look through this list and ask yourself where you are falling down. Perhaps that will give you some food for thought as you consider your new year's resolutions on January 1st.

Cracking the Social Media Puzzle….What Else You Need to Sharpen Your Teeth
Accounts of applicability of social media in bringing customers closer to businesses have become cliche over the time. This feverish pitch about the application of social media in marketing has reached to an extent where the marketing pundits have started calling it Marketing 2.0.
The 5 “Secrets” of closing the sale
Knowing when to close the sale is perhaps even more important than knowing how to ask for the order. Discover 5 "Secrets" to closing the sale...
Turning a Recession Into An Opportunity
There is no denying that recessions are not good for anyone. Recessions causes downtime – do not waste this downtime.
Reap Rewards with the Right Reputation
We’ve all heard the old cliche, “Under-Promise and Over-Deliver”. It’s easier said than done, isn’t it? Today, in these challenging economic times, many people tend to promise prospective customers more so they perceive the value as better than what a competitor can offer. Those same people also enjoy over-promising to make themselves feel more valued. Do they not think these actions will come back to haunt them? The overall point I’d like to make today is that we cannot build a reputation for ourselves or our company by what we say we can do. We build good reputations by delivering what our customers need.

5 signs your Web site is doing more harm than good
Take note of these five signs that your Web site may be doing more harm than good for your company's image (and yours)...
That dog won’t hunt
Here we are at the end of March already. I was talking with a friend the other day about an old farmer’s adage we used to anticipate in March regarding the weather: “In like a lamb, out like a lion.” Or “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” The expectation was that if we had harsh winter weather at the beginning of March we would have mild weather at the end – and vice versa. I have no idea why that is expected but it reminds me of all the little clichés that we accept as reality. As farmers we also used to cite, “Red in the morning, sailors warning; red at night, sailors delight.”

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It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know, says the old cliché. This is very true in business. If you can turn all the people around you into walking, talking advertisements for your business, you got it made.
Sales Training London: Playing the WAITing Game
2 ears, 1 mouth is a sales cliche but here's a powerful lesson on how and why to apply it for profit.
Creating Quality Content For SEO
It is an old and well-accepted cliché that "Content is king". Content is also time consuming, resource intensive and vital to the success of a Web site in the search engines.
Introduction - Microfinance:A Platform for Social Change
The phrase “Customer is King” may be an oversimplified cliché in business, but – stripped of all its bells and whistles – this phrase represents the essence of a consumer business.
Death, Public Speaking, and Seniors' Homes
Lots of us like to blithely retail the cliche about people being more afraid of public speaking than death, but I was caught up abruptly by an analogous finding in scanning some market research today on senior citizens in America:

Home Business Expert: Top 15 Ideas For Writing Articles
The phrase 'content is king' might be somewhat of a cliche, but on the Internet this is extremely true.
The Weapon
There is always a danger in focusing on the tools used to get a job done. (We all know the cliché about the six-year old with a chain saw...) That said however, a robust CRM system just might be the most powerful tool a sales team can have.

Please Someone Shoot These Buzzwords!
There are words and phrases used over and over, in fact "over and over" is one of them that are so tired and cliche that they should be taken out and shot or at least retired or admitted to a nursing him where they can rest in peace.

Inside Job: The Key to Internal Communications
You've heard it before, "you're only as strong as your weakest link." Sounds cliché, but based on multiple studies and various fields of research, this saying can ring true. Your business - no matter how small or large - is made by its employees. Trust us when we say, a little internal communications goes a long way.
Follow Your Dreams
Follow your dream - an age old wisdom which has become cliche and probably ignored for that reason. The truth is we are on this planet to live our best life and we can only do that by following our "dreams".
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