Top stories published by The Heretic in April of 2017

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Apr 24, 2017

The One and Only Truth About Time Management

Legend has it that a Nobel laureate was asked by a group of high-flying executives…

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Apr 14, 2017

The Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed (And Fail)

In 2015 Bill Gross, famed founder of startup factory Idea Lab, talked on the TED stage about “The single biggest reason why startups succeed”. His finding after analyzing hundreds of companies — both out of his own portfolio as…

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Apr 5, 2017

The Failure Fetish

There is something curious going on in startup land: From learning to accept failure as part of the creative process we seem to have gone into overdrive and fetishize failure as something which is worthy of pursuit in and of itself. From FailCon to Fuckup Night — talking about failure seems to…

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Apr 18, 2017

The Most Important Thing About Storytelling

I do a fair amount of public speaking as well as working with entrepreneurs on their respective pitches and presentations. In addition, I see tons of startups present — during demo days, in meetings and on stages large and small.

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Apr 22, 2017

How to Run a Board Meeting

I am on the board of a few organizations as well as had to run board meetings for companies at various points in my life. Board meetings can be highly contentious, painful, anxiety-inducing or largely useless — or they can be an amazing space for you, the entrepreneur, to set…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Apr 30, 2017

Take a Step Back To Make Two Steps Forward

When I launched my first startup — which in a lot of ways was also my first experience of running something as complex as a company, juggling multiple stakeholders (customers, service providers, partners, investors, and employees) and staking out the…

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Apr 11, 2017

Why You Have to Build Relationships Before You Can Lean on Them

Many of my friends and I received a fair amount of emails which are variations of “Hi, we met at event X. I am fundraising. Can you introduce me to some VCs in your network?”

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Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Apr 8, 2017

Weak Ties Tie Stronger

Reflecting back on Singularity University’s last Executive Program (which I had the honor, pleasure, and fortune to moderate) made me think about the “weak ties vs strong ties” theory: I believe that one of the main values of our program lies in us bringing together incredibly interesting…

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Apr 21, 2017

Location, Location, Location

Having the privilege of living in Silicon Valley (and before having lived in London and Berlin) I can see the lure of locating your startup in the heart of one of these beehives of startup activity. And I regularly have the conversation with founders about relocating to a…

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Apr 27, 2017

Do What’s Really Important

Yesterday I spoke with a dear friend of mine. He faces an interesting conundrum: On one hand his career is taking off, things are going well for him and momentum is building. On the other hand he has the unique opportunity to travel the world for the next couple of years, explore…

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