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How to find great advisors for your startup (and avoid the bad)
The advisory relationship is one of the most helpful and misunderstood relationships in the startup world. Here’s my personal take on how to get the best out of an advisory relationship from either side.
How to Get Your Creativity Back as an Entrepreneur ?
A few months ago, I was walking into my office and felt overwhelmed with a sense of anxiety and dread. A realization hit me. The building that was supposed to be my ‘place’ for creative work had become anything but. 7 years in, I’d lost the creative spark of my work entirely. And I wanted it back.
Startup CEO Coaching: Why I Coach Startup Leaders
Startup coaching is not therapy or consulting. It is a confidential partnership that helps founders make better decisions under pressure. I coach first-time CEOs, venture-backed founders, and startup leaders facing isolation, conflict, or burnout. The work focuses on decision quality, team alignment, and leadership capacity. If you want the story
Should I Start Another Business After Selling One? Why I Might Not
As I’ve begun to look into the abyss of what might be next, I am realizing there is no way to find my way to a real answer of the work that is mine to do without casting off this identity and these assumptions.
How to Be a Better CEO, The Hardest Change Great Leaders Make
Tears rolled down my face. I walked down Sandhill Road next to the famous venture capitalist who only days earlier had handed me a generous term sheet. Now, I was telling her my life was falling apart and explaining why she’d likely want to pull the term sheet and work with someone else.