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The Corrosive Nature of Over-Introducers

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Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time. It starts seemingly innocent enough. A person at a board meeting starts listing all the people they know at companies a, b and c.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up. Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#. Let me explain.