Required Reading: The Venture Essentials

Required Reading: The Venture Essentials

Ten thousand hours or four hundred sixteen and two-thirds days seems like a long time. It is. Much has been said about the 10,000-hour rule in developing mastery over anything. As a founder or small business owner, learning and developing mastery must be an essential...
Building Antifragile Businesses

Building Antifragile Businesses

by Jeff AmerineBusinesses of every size faced existential threats in 2020 due to the pandemic and other factors. Supply chains were disrupted, economies were locked down, demand disappeared or blew up and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was on full display. This sort of...
Valuation – Magic, Myths, and Methods

Valuation – Magic, Myths, and Methods

by Jeff Amerine Raising money sucks. It sucks for founders. It sucks for fund managers. It pretty much sucks for everyone. Part of what adds to the suckiness for founders is the dark art of valuing your company. The conventional financial valuation methods used by...
Asking Good Questions

Asking Good Questions

 Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought. – Einstein I like to ask questions. No matter if I’m going through a difficult season, have an idea that I want to bounce off of someone, or trying to grow the Science...
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