KITSAP/BUSINESS—If you obey the 10/20/30 Rule, your pitches will be better than those of 90 percent of entrepreneurs. To come even closer to perfect on, master these fine points: NEVER. READ. YOUR. SLIDES. Never read your slides. The text on slides is your anchor point. The words out of your mouth are explanatory and embellished. […]
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Learn the 10/20/30 Rule.
KITSAP/BUSINESS—Do you have Méniere’s disease? The medical term used for the combination of tinnitus, hearing loss, and vertigo. There is no cure, but there are many theories about its cause, side effects, medication, and treatment. Some people believe that Méniére’s is the outcome of listening to numerous crappy pitches. Pareto’s Principle is that 80 percent […]
FOUNDATIONS
KITSAP/BUSINESS—VERY GREAT COMPANY is unique, but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning. We stress this so often because a startup witnessed up at its foundation cannot be fixed. Beginnings are special. They are qualitatively different from all that comes afterward. This was true 13.8 billion years ago, […]
Learning about Pitching.
GIST Forget, “I think. Therefore I am,” For entrepreneurs, the operative phrase is “I pitch. Therefore I am.” Pitching isn’t only for raising cash—it’s for achieving agreement, and agreement can yield many good results, including sales, partnerships, and new recruitment. Question: How on earth can you know if a businessman is pitching? Answer: Look in his eyes!! […]
THE CASE FOR SECRETS
You can’t find secrets without looking for them. Andrew Wiles demonstrated this when he proved Fermat’s Last Theorem after 358 years of fruitless inquiry by other mathematicians — the kind of sustained failure that might have suggested an inherently impossible task. Pierre de Fermat had conjectured in 1637 that no integers a, b, and c […]
HOW TO FIND SECRETS
KITSAP/ UPDATE—There are two kinds of secrets: secrets of nature and secrets about people. Natural secrets exist all around us; to find them, one must study some undiscovered aspect of the physical world. Secrets about people are different: they are things that people don’t know about themselves or things they hide because they don’t want […]
WHY PEOPLE DON’T SEE THE POWER LAW?
KITSAP/BUSINESS—Why would professional VCs, of all people, fail to see the power law? For one thing, it only becomes apparent over time, and even technology investors too often live in the present. Imagine a firm invests in 10 companies with the potential to become monopolies—already an unusually disciplined portfolio. Those companies will look very similar […]
Three Bainbridge Island teens killed in an accident.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – A terrible and brutal car accident on Bainbridge’s sunrise drive killed three teenage girls on the very evening of March 16. Bainbridge police stated that the car has been traveling at a hazardous speed. Just before the accident happened, the vehicle was spotted on the Bainbridge sunrise. After few minutes, the car hit […]
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CONVENTION
KITSAP/BUSINESS—How must you see the world if you don’t believe in secrets? You’d have to think we’ve already solved all great questions. If today’s conventions are correct, we can afford to be smug and complacent: “God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world.” For example, a world without secrets would enjoy a perfect understanding […]
WHY ARE PEOPLE NOT LOOKING FOR SECRETS?
Kitsap: Most people behave as if there are no secrets left to find, but that’s not the case…There are more secrets than there are human beings on earth…STICK IT TO YOUR PIPES AND SMOKE IT!!. Let us learn about Ted Kaczynski. An extreme representative of this view, Ted Kaczynski was infamously known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski […]