Effective board meetings in 10 steps (my first Quora inspired post)

MVPP: Minimum Viable Product Purchase and the lesson of the first trash talk T’s

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Hello, my name is Phin and I am a sneakerhead VC

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How SaaS is killing karaoke and the “entertainment” column in expense accounts everywhere

Where have all the singers gone…

“Previum” the evolution of Freemium

When I was selling shrink-wrapped product to Best Buy, we showed the buyer testimonials from our alpha and beta users to convince him that the product would live up to our promise and walked him through a demo. He was not convinced and we were stuck at maybe. Then we…

“No” hurts. “Maybe” can kill.

When I was raising money for my fitness gaming company, I dreaded rejection. I focused my efforts on getting to “yes” and spoke to a lot of VC’s and got a lot of maybes. It was not great, but at least it wasn’t a “no.”

If two R’s is good, three is better. A new SaaS metric: Monthly Recurring Revenue Ramped (MRRR)

three is better than two but with both, you are really cooking with gas