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Don't schedule meetings on Monday AM. Why on earth would you do that? Give yourself a day of work to be able to polish up the demo.

• balls187 11y ago
  > Why on earth would you do that? You tapped your investor to get a meeting scheduled with Apple in order to convince them to use your data in their map application. Apple gives you a time, and lets you know Jobs will be in this meeting[1]. How bad do you want success? [1] If this seems contrived situation, it actually happened. Former US VP Al Gore, a partner with one of our investors, was on the board of Apple and arranged the meeting. When the team went to present to Apple, they found out Steve Jobs wouldn't be able to attend the meeting. We later found out that he was in the hospital, and sadly, he eventually passed on.
  • outericky 11y ago
    Work throws curveballs all the time. Working weekends because of a Monday deadline isn't reserved just for startups. It happens.
    • balls187 11y ago
      Exactly. And sometimes those curve balls (like a critical Monday AM deadline) isn't in your control.
  • st3v3r 11y ago
    It is a contrived situation. 99.99999999999999% of times, this will not apply. And saying that you're going to have to be prepared in case it will is just silly.
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