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3x CEO, SaaS & Media | Private Equity & Venture | Board Member…
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Mark Josephson shared thisMy attention span is so short.... How short is it? My attention span is only 25 seconds This is not a joke. I switch context on average every 25 seconds when i'm working. But now that I can measure it, I am going to improve it. Thank you Intension team. Want to measure your attention span? Comment "Attention" below.Mark Josephson shared thisYour attention span is probably shorter than you think — and now you can measure it. We built a Mac app that measures the shape of your attention in real time. It tracks context switches, focus depth, and distraction patterns - then distills them into a dashboard that shows how you actually focus your attention throughout the day. It runs locally. No cloud. No tracking. No one sees your data but you. We're inviting a small group to test this with us as we build. Your experience will directly shape what Intension becomes. If you want in, sign-up on with the link or comment "attention" below! http://bit.ly/488y6KZ
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Mark Josephson shared thisDoes your company have a Manifesto? If not, get cracking. I'll be sharing why you need one and how to build it, this Thursday -- March 26th -- with the great folks Yale Ventures. See you there.Mark Josephson shared this🗓️ This week's Innovation & Entrepreneurship events across Yale University Mar 26 - 27: Sci X Sci-Fi with Yale Planetary Solutions https://lnkd.in/egukMN3C Mar 26: When the Research Lab Meets Change Capital: Impact and Outlook of PE in Health Innovation https://lnkd.in/evDh-Evy Mar 26: Innovators in Practice: Why You Need a Company Manifesto — Building Clarity, Focus & Urgency with Mark Josephson, Venture Builder, former CEO of Bitly and About.com https://luma.com/19ntohcu Mar 27: Part I — Red Helicopter® Stories (12:00–3:00 PM) https://luma.com/v8w2gb8n Mar 27: Part II — Red Helicopter ®: A Live Case Study in Building Cultural Infrastructure https://luma.com/6gpo3hbv Mar 28 - 29: YHack https://www.yhack.org/ Save the date: Mar 31: Fuel Your Idea: Considering a Blavatnik Fund Proposal? Join Us for Lunch, Wu Tsai Institute https://luma.com/ktgs3rcw Apr 1: Scaling Resilience for a Changing Planet: A Collaborative Conversation from the Yale Planetary Solutions Catalyst Consortium https://luma.com/o7tex9vj Apr 2: Fuel Your Idea: Considering a Blavatnik Fund Proposal? Join us for Lunch Yale West Campus https://luma.com/lj631nq6 Apr 2: Global Venture Without Borders: A Conversation with Eric Kim https://luma.com/EricKim For a full list of events, visit: https://lnkd.in/eUriWtTC
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Mark Josephson shared thisThe Friday Update is one of the highest-leverage habits a CEO can build. It forces clarity once a week. It keeps your team aligned without meetings. It creates a living record of your company’s year, in your voice, in real time. More than that: it’s how you lead. Consistently. Authentically. With your hands on the wheel, steering through all the stuff, week after week after week. Start this Friday. Don’t overthink the format. You can steal my template -- link below in comments. Just write. 🔥 LFG 🔥
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Mark Josephson shared this"We're going to miss the quarter and I don't know what to tell my board." -- one my clients last week. Who can you ask? If you don't have a coach or trusted advisors or peers, consider joining a group of similarly-focused peers. Spring cohort application here: https://mbj.im/ceo-group
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Mark Josephson posted this"Don't f*ck up the 409a!" After my first board meeting as a CEO, one of my board members jokingly (I think) said this to me. I was pretty sure I knew what they meant, but wasn't sure and definitely was not comfortable asking for clarity. I couldn't ask my team. I couldn't ask my wife. But, I was lucky enough to have two close friends who were also first time venture-backed CEOs who I could call. I did, and it was so helpful. That's why I run CEO Peer Groups -- a safe place to ask the questions and get the support of people in the exact same job as you. Think you could benefit from this? Fill out the application below and let's get to it.
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Mark Josephson shared thisIf you're Granola-Curious, lmk. I am all in. Thank you to the incredible Coaching Corner community for this opportunity and for the always-on support.Mark Josephson shared thisLast week in Coaching Corner our community member Mark Josephson led a live, behind-the-scenes session on using Granola to make coaching more effective and less cognitively demanding. He walked through a real workflow: OS-level transcription, auto-start on calls, and turning raw conversations into summaries, next‑session prep, action items, and insights. A big theme was presence—staying fully with the client while Granola quietly captures the details in the background, creating a searchable history for better follow‑through and long‑term progress tracking. Mark also dug into consent, privacy, and data retention, plus how coaches are extending Granola beyond 1:1 sessions into their clients’ own meetings and systems. (and yes, this recap was made using Granola too ✅) If you’re a coach curious about augmenting your practice with AI (without losing the human connection, Coaching Corner is a community exploring conversations just like this with curiosity and depth and we're so lucky and grateful to have Mark Josephson host such an engaging session. Coaching Corner Members: you can check out the recording on our Notion workshop recordings page and in our slack channel, #03-events-and-recaps
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Mark Josephson reposted thisTL;DR --> Spots open for CEO Peer Group (Spring Cohort). Being a CEO can be lonely. You can’t always say the hard thing to your board. You can’t show doubt to your team. And most people in your life don’t actually understand the pressure you’re carrying. A trusted peer group fixes that. It’s one of the highest-leverage things you can have. A small, closed group of people at your level, facing your kind of problems, with no agenda other than to help each other get better. You bring your real stuff. So does everyone else. You leave with perspective, ideas, and the feeling that you’re not doing this alone. Application link below. Questions? Fire away. 🔥 LFG 🔥
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Mark Josephson posted thisTL;DR --> Spots open for CEO Peer Group (Spring Cohort). Being a CEO can be lonely. You can’t always say the hard thing to your board. You can’t show doubt to your team. And most people in your life don’t actually understand the pressure you’re carrying. A trusted peer group fixes that. It’s one of the highest-leverage things you can have. A small, closed group of people at your level, facing your kind of problems, with no agenda other than to help each other get better. You bring your real stuff. So does everyone else. You leave with perspective, ideas, and the feeling that you’re not doing this alone. Application link below. Questions? Fire away. 🔥 LFG 🔥
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Mark Josephson shared thisAre you Granola curious? Join me tomorrow with the Coaching Corner crew as I share how Granola makes me a better coach. All are welcome.Mark Josephson shared thisWhat we’re talking about inside Coaching Corner next 👀 Our March BTS (Behind the Scenes) Authentic Business Talk features Mark Josephson on: Granola: Your New Best Friend How to use Granola to take better coaching notes. Not a theoretical AI convo. Not a tech flex. Inside this session, Mark’s sharing the REAL behind the scenes of how Granola powers his coaching practice and systems, from how he captures sessions (with his client's permission!) to how he organizes insights and turns conversations into stronger prep, follow-ups, and client support. BTS talks are where one member shares a real, behind-the-scenes POV on how they’re building their business and sparks thoughtful discussion across the community. If you’ve ever thought, “My notes system could be… better,” this one’s for you. BTS Talk: How I Use Granola to Take Better Coaching Notes 📅 March 6 | 12–1pm EST 🎥 Recorded for Coaching Corner members 🔗 Info here: https://luma.com/qkdo7u8a More reflections to come after the session.BTS Talk: How I use Granola to take better coaching notes · LumaBTS Talk: How I use Granola to take better coaching notes · Luma
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Mark Josephson liked thisMark Josephson liked thisFrom 0 to 1 million impressions in 90 days. Here's what I learned. Three months ago, I had zero LinkedIn presence. Then something clicked. Instead of trying to write what I thought people wanted to hear on LinkedIn, I started writing like myself. → Told stories about Alex AI instead of just product announcements → Posted daily instead of when I "had something important to say" → Posted what I'd personally read, not what I thought people would read The algorithm doesn't care about fancy vocabulary or perfectly polished posts. It cares about whether people stop scrolling. And in a world of AI, people stop for authenticity. Authenticity beats polish every single time.
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Mark Josephson liked thisMark Josephson liked thisI have a very talented senior sales leader (friend), who has worked for me twice. He is a highly passionate and results-driven leader, who practices servant leadership and who will have your back if he works for you. Truly a great guy, a driver and a winner. I’d hire him again in a heartbeat. He is located in NYC. Ping me and I’ll introduce you if you have a need for a powerful revenue leader (sr. Manager, Director level) in the NYC area.
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Mark Josephson liked thisMark Josephson liked thisIn a sea of layoffs - I am hiring. Angler AI is looking for customer success team members, business development leads, a sales engineer, and a director of analytics. Digital media experience is a must. Shout if you’d like to talk, or have a referral. We have a great product, a high bar for excellence, and an incredible company culture. For those impacted by layoffs over the last few weeks at Meta, Oracle, and elsewhere - I’ve been there. I’m thinking of you. And - it will work out. Take a beat and take care of yourself.
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Mark Josephson reacted on thisMark Josephson reacted on thisCrowd-sourcing: A question for those coaching at the senior | executive level What certifications or assessment tools have you found to genuinely elevate the work, particularly in complex high-stakes environments with multiple stakeholders? I’m being deliberate about expanding my toolkit (and aligning with CCEs), and am especially interested in perspectives from those doing this work at a senior level.
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Mark Josephson liked thisI've been at Uncork Capital for 15 years. I've watched us back founders before anyone else believed in them, hold on through the hard parts, and show up in ways that most investors don't. I've seen what this team is made of. So when we decided it was time to refresh our brand and rebuild our website, I was excited to get to lead the project alongside Andy. Getting it right mattered. We spent the better part of a year on it. That's a lot of rounds of feedback, a lot of late looks at typography and color palettes, a lot of "is this actually us?" conversations. The answer we kept coming back to: steady, clear, genuinely founder-first. Not trying to be something it's not. The new site and brand aren't a reinvention. It's more like... the outside finally matches the inside. Really proud of this one. Go read Andy's post. And if you're a founder at the earliest stages of something, go check out the new site ↓ #venture #seed #uncorkMark Josephson liked thisVenture firms rebrand for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's genuine evolution - the identity finally catches up with who the firm has become. Sometimes it's camouflage - a way of looking like a different kind of firm than the one the last few years revealed. And sometimes it's just that the old website was embarrassing and someone finally had enough. Ours is mostly the first, none of the second, and just a touch of the last :) Today we're launching a new brand and a redesigned website. The logo is refreshed. The palette is cleaner. The typography is sharper. And the site actually reflects how we think in 2026. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gFxa34ya
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Mark Josephson reacted on thisMark Josephson reacted on this16 years at Bitly today ⓰🎂 Still the best job I've ever had. Always interesting, always challenging, always rewarding. Because of the people 🙏
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Mark Josephson reacted on thisBethany Crystal is doing some really cool things around educating NYers about what can be done on a small and grand scale with AI.Mark Josephson reacted on thisYesterday we convened the first gathering for localhost:3000, an all-day vibe coding gathering for NYC builders. Co-hosted with Louise Macfadyen, we set out to gather a group of fellow vibe coders to help us both make sense of what it means to be a builder in the the age of AI. Intentionally small, we capped attendance to 20 people and ended up having 11 folks join in for the day. We kept the day loosely structured. But the best part was when a one-off request where I sought tech architecture help on my own project ended up resulting in nearly 4 hours straight of demos from the group. To me, this is such an important signal that IRL network connections matter more than ever in the age of AI. Thanks so much to Louise for co-hosting this with me and to Fred Benenson for hosting us! If you're a builder interested in convening in a future session like this - or have an office where you'd like to host builders for a day, drop a line to bethany@buildfirst.ai. More in this blog post here: https://lnkd.in/e2sPTnnw
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