Archive for November, 2008

Mentoring, flow of expertise

Mentoring is a great concept. Experience flowing down from veterans to recruits can be a satisfying relation for everyone implied. But as any other successful relation, doing it the right way and with the right expectations is a lot better in the long run.
The explicit goal is learning. The mentor’s job is to promote the [...]

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Elevator pitch, cut the crap

Yesterday i had the chance to see a presentation about the elevator pitch with investors from Vincent Guyaux. How to say “That’s my company, that’s who we deal with, and that’s how me make money” in two minutes or less. When we’re used to write and read 45+ pages of text to answer these questions, [...]

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