🍴 You are what you eat.🍴 Well, unless you're stressed.
We scarf cropboxes almost daily at the office but the reality is...
Stress Can Override Benefits Of Healthful Eating.
Solution: "Exercise and social connectedness," says Aric Prather, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, "are effective in improving people's well-being and their ability to cope with stress." That explains while @rollcallams keeps me so stoked.
Just wanna chill though? Be Kind and unwind: Even doing nice things for others can help keep stress in check.
As always, thanks for reading!
p.s.
Consider yourself invited to our Two Year Party next Friday!
Cycling
GRAMSCHAP CYCLING TEAM
My friend Maarten from merci-cycling.be is putting together a new team down in Belgium. They're looking for partners.
Interested to get involved? Reach out to maarten dot rasschaert at merci-cycling dot be Follow them on instagram: @gramschap
Podia - Roadventures: Fully Supported Cycling Tours in Eastern Europe
Podia Roadventures are premium fully supported Cycling Tours with expert guides to the best cycling locations in Eastern Europe. Damn. So keen in 2017.
THEORIES OF RELATIVITY by Café du Cycliste
Nobody does trip like Max, Camille & Ali. So good!
Mountains always do something to one’s sense of perspective, which must expand to take in something bigger, wider, further than what has passed before. They are a lesson in relativity. I am small, this mountain is big.
Startups
Setting aspirational targets
4 principles to keep in mind during the target-setting in a transformation process.
Going from producing to managing people
Most founders end up moving from a producing role to a managing role, and the transition is painful, challenging, and sometimes scary.
Related: Letting go to grow — Lessons learned on the path to becoming a better leader.
Intern: The platform inviting creative industries to invest in youth, and prosper
I have a pet peeve with unpaid & underpaid internships.
These guys get it.
“When I ask our contributors to invoice us, I always tell them ‘if you’ve never invoiced someone before, just drop me a line and I’ll talk you through how to do it.’
Sales
How to E-Mail a Busy Person & get a Reply
Tobias van Schneider, a multi-disciplinary designer living in New York, says:
I don’t think E-Mail sucks, but the way we write them does. We need to fix the problem at the source, which means writing better emails.
Bonus: 20 email blunders to avoid.
SaaS Meetup Amsterdam - Dec 9
See you here next Friday in Amsterdam?
Innovation Nest, a VC firm based in Krakow, Poland, is bringing SaaS Meetup to Amsterdam. It's a day long event for B2B Software companies filled with interactions; knowledge and experience sharing and mentoring.
Expect four things:
- Keynotes - Only two by experienced entrepreneurs.
- Pitching - Showcasing 7 companies
- By Founders for Founders - round tables, discussion groups and workshops hosted by entrepreneurs
- Mentoring - 20+ mentors available for 20 min sessions.
Apply: saasmeetup.com
How Much to Compensate SaaS Sales Teams for New Sales, Renewals and Expansions
Happy customers buy more products, remain customers longer and enable SaaS startups to scale rapidly and efficiently.
Developing the sales motions, customer success sophistication and compensation structures to enable this type of growth is an essential skill of enduring SaaS businesses.
Radness
On Bridges @ Red Light Radio 11-24-2016
Remember when I mentioned Red Light Radio in Issue 46? If not, they're a radio station & international music platform based in here in the Red Light District.
Last week a recent Aussie transplant & fellow Workspace 6 resident, Andrew, Greenie, Green did his first hour of Bridges sharing rad music on the local Amsterdam airwaves. He also has a company that helps you level up your instagram game: konichischool.com
If you're a local too, maybe we'll see you at Red Light Radio's 6th bday party in 2 weeks!
