“Meetings can make or break an organization. If your meetings are well prepared, focused on planning for action, and facilitated in an efficient, yet involving and upbeat manner, they help build your organization. On the other hand, if your meetings are poorly planned, poorly run. and don’t focus on planning for action, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to build an organization.”

“According to Eileen C. Shapiro and HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, three key elements help you size up an option: your satisfaction to date, predictions about likely results, and future intentions. A book excerpt from ‘Make Your Own Luck.’”

“In a VC meeting, first thing to remember: Your goal is to get the next meeting (See: Commandment #3). Second thing to remember: That’s not your audience’s goal. The goal of the audience is to decide whether it’s ‘worth it’ (see below) to schedule a second meeting (their opportunity cost, and, to a limited degree, yours). For this, they will inevitably ask a bunch of questions (see Commandment #8: Know what you don’t know, and admit it). Questions can be good, bad or distracting (a form of ‘bad’). The wrong approach to answering questions can be fatal to the second meeting. This Commandment offers advice on ways to handle this situation.”

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