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Xavier Helgesen

enduring.ventures
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Co-CEO: Enduring Ventures, a Post-Modern Conglomerate. Founder: ZOLA Electric, Better World Books. Oxford Skoll Scholar. Globalist, Social Entrepreneur, Foodie.

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  • In boxing, you get knocked out if you don’t do something counterintuitive (step with your rear foot first). Smart, capable people become first time CEOs/managers and end up knocked out because they ONLY do intuitive things. 10 essential counter-i
    by Xavier Helgesen
  • I think a lot about asymmetric risk, and that extends to my health. There are certain conditions like aneurysms that have no symptoms but then kill you suddenly. So, as a healthy 43 year old, I went in for a full body MRI. What I learned amazed
    by Xavier Helgesen
  • A friend called me last week, torn up. She had to fire a co-founder. Here’s what I told her… Firing is the worst part of entrepreneurship. But it is also the most essential. Nobody taught this in business school, so I wrote a manual. How/wh
    by Xavier Helgesen
  • As an entrepreneur, I have had amazing Board Members and terrible ones. Then I became one. But there was no manual, so I made a lot of expensive mistakes. After 1,000+ board meetings, I decided to write one. Here’s Good Director/Bad Director:
    by Xavier Helgesen
  • One of my mentors raised over $500 million and went public. He taught me one remarkable fundraising tactic: He wouldn’t accept term sheets. He only SENT term sheets TO VCs with a hard deadline. I raised over $100 million using the same technique
    by Xavier Helgesen
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