Course Screening Startup Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 8, 2014
Deal screening. Industry reviews. Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2013
It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Sam had different plans.
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InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration. Startups Need Execution, Not Administration.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 26, 2011
At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. That doesn’t work in a startup. It says that you need to take due care in selecting team members.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 12, 2021
If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! Technology environment savvy. In today’s mobile hardware environment, that means able to set up meetings, convert text messages to voice, find contact information quickly, and search the Web intelligently for outside info.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 10, 2010
If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle).
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