Comments on: To Listen or Not To Listen http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/10/to-listen-or-not-to-listen.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brad Feld http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/10/to-listen-or-not-to-listen.html/comment-page-1#comment-3687 Brad Feld Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:59:44 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1299#comment-3687 Ralph - good question. My guess is that if he had decided to proceed and it kept going where I thought it was going to go, I would have shut the conversation down in another five minutes. In a case like this, I prefer that the entrepreneur make the decision so that he can't say I was an obnoxious asshole that didn't want to spend time with him, but I'll "call the ball" if I think there is a direct conflict. In this case, I didn't have quite enough information, but all my spider senses were tingling. Ralph – good question. My guess is that if he had decided to proceed and it kept going where I thought it was going to go, I would have shut the conversation down in another five minutes. In a case like this, I prefer that the entrepreneur make the decision so that he can’t say I was an obnoxious asshole that didn’t want to spend time with him, but I’ll “call the ball” if I think there is a direct conflict. In this case, I didn’t have quite enough information, but all my spider senses were tingling.

]]> By: Ralph http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/10/to-listen-or-not-to-listen.html/comment-page-1#comment-3686 Ralph Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:00:35 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1299#comment-3686 You raise your own warning flag here. Even if he didn't fully understand the danger/downside etc of continuing the conversation it sounds like you did. Why would you not end the conversation whethe he wanted to or not? You raise your own warning flag here. Even if he didn’t fully understand the danger/downside etc of continuing the conversation it sounds like you did.

Why would you not end the conversation whethe he wanted to or not?

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