What Kind of People Do VCs Like to Back
Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham have a long, thoughtful post up on their Union Square Ventures site titled Founders and Management. In addition to providing a general description of the type of people...
View ArticleIs Quality of The Team The Most Important Thing?
Question: When you evaluate startups to invest in what are the key qualities and what emphasis do you place on it? Is management as high as 50% or more? Every young venture capitalist learns several...
View ArticleHandling a Poor Reference on a New CEO Candidate
Question: I am the CEO of a company my board is looking to hire a new CEO, for fund raising purposes, and has identified a candidate. The candidate was in fact referred by a VC, I was asked to...
View ArticleYou Can Fire 10% of Your Company Anytime And Not Notice
Will Herman has today’s excellent post up titled Prune and Upgrade as You Go. It starts out with a quote from one of the board members from one of his early companies: “any day, any time, you can fire...
View ArticleThe CEO Review
My partner Seth Levine has today’s great post up titled CEO Reviews. In it, he talks about the importance of a board of a venture-backed company doing a CEO review and provides a road map for how to...
View ArticleRaouf: What Made Alex Ferguson a Great Manager
Oopsie – we forgot to do the “best VC post of the day” for the last month or two. You might have thought there weren’t any great VC posts, but you’d be wrong. We were just being lazy. As with all good...
View ArticleEhrenberg: Letting Go
Today’s VC post is from Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) titled Letting Go. Roger makes a strong set of points about how a founder/CEO needs to learn how to let go. I have a specific nuance that I see...
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