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As I mentioned in my recent podcast episode, Adding Value in Today’s Venture Capital Market with Peterson Ventures’ Ben Capell, I have been doing a lot of thinking about how I can add differentiated value to our MergeLane portfolio. I’m asking myself six questions to that end. Since these questions can be revised to be relevant to anyone who mentors, advises, invests, or manages, I thought I’d share them.
What are the five most impactful things mentors, advisors, and investors have done for my businesses?
What are the five most impactful things mentors, advisors, and investors have done for me personally?
What are the top five ways our current MergeLane mentors, advisors, and investors add value?
What are the five most important lessons I’ve learned that have changed the trajectory of my businesses?
What are the five most important lessons I’ve learned that have changed the trajectory of my life as an entrepreneur?
What are five things that I love doing that enable me to add unique value to our portfolio?
I post my most interesting weekly thoughts, coupled with the best of my listening and reading list, and occasional MergeLane Portfolio news every (or nearly every) Tuesday. To follow Tuesday Takeaways and our occasional blog posts, you can subscribe to our blog or follow me on twitter.
I’ve spent most of my life learning how to turn off my passion for just long enough to eat and sleep. I’ve never had to learn how to turn it on. After a recent long stretch without that passion, here's my hypothesis as to why I think it is coming back.
Read more ➞I tried for many years to maintain a jam-packed schedule with zero margin for error, but life never seems to fit into perfectly scheduled boxes. After a straw-that-broke-the-camel’s-back moment, I’m learning to live off of the brink of disaster.
Read more ➞I've spent more time than necessary on our fund administration and reporting, in part because of some of the easily avoidable administrative mistakes I’ve made over my 10-year journey as a startup investor.
Read more ➞Over these past two months and throughout all of 2020, I've learned something that I want to record to make sure that I remember: My anxiety about the potential outcomes is almost always worse than the actual outcome.
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