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​✍️ New blog post:
​On The Importance of Desperate Customers​
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​🎧 New podcast episode:
​In case you missed it, I also republished this mega-popular interview: ​
​Dr. Becky Kennedy — Parenting Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids, Plus Word-for-Word Scripts for Repairing Relationships, Setting Boundaries, and More​
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✍️ New blog post:
​On The Importance of Desperate Customers​
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I’ve been revisiting my Kindle highlights of Pattern Breakers, co-authored by legendary angel investor and friend Mike Maples Jr.
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Mike was the kind soul who taught me the fundamentals of angel investing back in 2007/2008. He deserves a lot of credit for the wild startup adventures that followed. He’s one of my favorite people in Silicon Valley, a co-founding partner at Floodgate, and has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade.
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Of course, Mike’s principles apply to founding or investing in early-stage tech companies, but many of them also apply to evaluating public stocks or creating anything for the wider world.
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One simple distinction from Pattern Breakers worth revisiting often is this: interested vs. desperate.

Mike writes:
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🎧 New podcast episode:
​Dr. Becky Kennedy — Parenting Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids, Plus Word-for-Word Scripts for Repairing Relationships, Setting Boundaries, and More​

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Dr. Becky Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Good Inside, a parenting movement that overturns a lot of conventional, modern parenting practices to empower parents to become sturdy, confident leaders and raise sturdy, confident kids. She is the author of the bestselling book Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, a chart-topping podcast, a TED talk with more than 5 million views on the power of repair.
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Please enjoy!
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