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• Posted Betaday 2013 by Betaworks to The Web and the World of Business
  This last week I was in NYC and attended the 2013 Betaday, put on yearly by Betaworks. It was a smaller, more intimate event this year, which was more similar to the first few Betadays - only 100 attendees which...
• Posted Demo Day Tips Volume 2.1: Essential Timing to The Web and the World of Business
  Two more thoughts on Demo Days: 1. Given the plethora of accelerators out there, the scheduling of the Demo Day is challenging because you don't want to hold a Demo Day to close to another one. This is because you...
• Posted Demo Day Tips Volume 2: From Day One to Winning the Pageant to The Web and the World of Business
  A while back I was part of the short lived mentor program at YCombinator and wrote this post in response, Tips on Demo Day and Afterwards for YCombinator Startups. It was in reaction to easy to fix mistakes that all...
• Posted Tips on Turning a Masters Workout into a Total Immersion Practice to Training, Training, Training
  For those of you swimming in Masters workouts and want to continue to incorporate TI learnings and principles, here are some tips: General Tips: 1. Practice maintaining mental focus on each lap, to do whatever it is you are practicing...
• Posted ARPWave and EVOUltrafit: Rehab and Training via Electrostim to Training, Training, Training
  In my journey to find the ultimate and most efficient training methods, I came across the next stop in my quest at Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Conference back in January. There I met Dr. Justin Marchegiani of Just In Health and...
• Posted Functional Movement Screen Level 2 with Dr. Mark Cheng to Training, Training, Training
  Last year, I took the FMS online certification class and it left me wanting more information. Screening someone for imbalances is fine, but what do you do with them afterwards? Getting some corrective exercises prescribed to me was great, but...
• Posted Corporate Due Diligence Fast and Easy to The Web and the World of Business
  In two past posts, I talked about doing due diligence on startups. The first one was The Lack of Due Diligence is Appalling and Foolish where I lamented that most investors I met out there did virtually no due diligence...
• Posted Metrics for Series A to The Web and the World of Business
  Over this last year, I have been watching a whole group of startups attempt to land their series A. One aspect that has been shown to be incredibly important for sophisticated and series A investors is showing superior metrics and...
• Posted The Functional Movement Screen, Corrective Exercises, Movement Patterns, and Fixing Me! to Training, Training, Training
  A while back, my sports med doc put me through the Functional Movement Screen or FMS. The FMS is a set of 7 physical tests, designed to capture movement imbalances between your left and right sides. Research has shown that...
• Posted "I Have No Competition!" to The Web and the World of Business
  This must be the favorite sentence uttered by entrepreneurs. But who can really lay claim to this statement being true? Could someone truly have no competitors? Usually what happens is, after the pitch I go back to our research team...
• Posted We Investors are Haunted by Our Past to The Web and the World of Business
  A few weeks back I met with an entrepreneur who had recently closed a round with a large VC. We got to talking about what it was like to work with that VC, and he mentioned that it was a...
• Posted The Gentler Side of Muscle Scraping to Training, Training, Training
  Graston Technique and Gua Sha generally bring up images of someone taking a blunt metal tool and painfully bruising the heck out of your muscles, but with amazingly positive results. But recently, I have been experimenting with scraping with a...
• Posted The Importance of Revenue is Back to The Web and the World of Business
  Back in 2009, shortly after the 2008 crash, I wrote The Importance of Revenue at Early Stage, Now More Than Ever. Up to that time, we had been on a roll - startup investing was growing well and we had...
• Posted Now that You've Got MVP, It's Time to Think About MVC to The Web and the World of Business
  Lately, I've been doing meetings with young startups in recent accelerator batches and meeting them for the first time. It's been great to hear that they've bought into the iterative method of customer development and most of them have found...
• Posted bio to coachdshen
  ABOUT COACH DSHEN David Shen is the President of David Shen Ventures, LLC. He advises and invests in early stage internet startups, helping them in the areas of user experience, product development and strategy, and online advertising. Prior to...
• Posted index to coachdshen
  Coachdshen.com Training Philosophy Training without injury Performance through the use of data and science Dispelling traditional, outdated, blatantly wrong training methods from the past Certifications Recent Blog Entries More at my Training Blog @ dshen.com >>...
• Posted The Deadlift Update: Focus and Nervous System Activation to Training, Training, Training
  It's been a while since I've been on this deadlifting kick. My goal is still to reach 2x my bodyweight and I am currently at 255 lbs. at a weight of 145. Only a measly 35 lbs to go! My...
• Posted My Favorite Method for Naming Startups to The Web and the World of Business
  On the 500startups forums, someone asked about how to name their startup. I thought it would be worthwhile to repost my response there, which was to detail my favorite process for brainstorming a new name for a company, product, or...
• Posted We Are Weak to Training, Training, Training
  Yesterday I was going through the first of Gray Cook's DVD series on the Certified Kettlebell-Functional Movement Screen or CK-FMS. The FMS was developed by Gray Cook as a way to consistently and accurately assess an athlete via only 7...
• Posted Venture Therapy to The Web and the World of Business
  As an advisor to startups, I've spent a lot of time developing my skills at teaching, guiding, and influencing people. But things aren't always so rosy for startups - people who have done startups before know that there can be...
• Posted "Can I get you to Series A?" to The Web and the World of Business
  In my last trip to NYC, I had breakfast with my buddy Steve Schlafman of Lerer Ventures. I was talking about how many of our startups were going up for series A, and how it was filling my brain and...
• Posted Hardstyle Kettlebell Certification in NYC 6-30-12 to Training, Training, Training
  On Saturday June 30, I was in NYC the week prior on business and decided to stay an extra day to attend Hardstyle Kettlebell Certification (HKC) workshop and get certified. I had first discovered kettlebells shortly after reading Four Hour...
• Posted 7-14-12 to Normatec MVP Log
  Began KB swings. Then ran :30 barefoot running, 2:40 run, :20 RI. after that, ran 1:00 with running shoes about 9.6 miles total. 45 min MVP session about 6 hours after i got back....
• Posted It's Our Job to Help Prepare You for Series A to The Web and the World of Business
  Since the beginning of this year, I've been helping a number of my startups prepare for series A (you can read some tips I've collected in my last post Some Suggestions on How to Prepare for a Successful Series A)....
• Posted 7/9/12 to Normatec MVP Log
  Ran 30 min barefoot, 2:00 run :30 RI Then ran 1 hour with running shoes, about 9.3 miles total. 45 min MVP session after....
• Posted 7/4/12 to Normatec MVP Log
  The 5th day after my HKC test, and still feeling sore. Hamstrings are tightened up. Did 45 min MVP session. Seemed to help a bit....
• Posted A Run with Zozi Guru Dean Karnazes and Awesome Lessons Learned to Training, Training, Training
  Two Saturdays ago, I had the awesome opportunity to do a run with Dean Karnazes who is part of the Zozi Guru program. The day was beautiful and the run was out in Big Sur. We ran through groves of...
• Posted Some Suggestions on How to Prepare for a Successful Series A to The Web and the World of Business
  This year, I've got a number of startups all gunning for series A. A lot of us have been working on getting these startups to a point where they can present the best possible chance for getting their next round....
• Posted What I've Learned About Diet and Fat Loss to Training, Training, Training
  After I read 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss early last year, I tried a whole bunch of things: deadlifting, ASR Speed, and...his fat loss diet slightly modified. 4 Hour Body's diet was actually quite involved. But I didn't do...
• Posted Energy Systems to Training, Training, Training
  I first learned about the different energy systems in the book 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. He had inserted an ultrarunning/marathon program by a Crossfit practictioner named Brian MacKenzie (see Super Running: Is Crossfit Endurance The New Way To...