InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The data consistently confirms that: (i) venture capitalists are typically not adventuresome, and (ii) most startups lack the three intoxicating factors which cause venture capitalists to pull out their checkbooks. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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JUNE 19, 2015

An example might be a business development conversation, a first customer meeting, the first candidate in a recruiting process, the first time you talk with a journalist at TechCrunch or the first meeting to consider your business strategy. In a way it’s intoxicating for those around them … initially.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Think back to Uber — the idea that any car could be a taxi is still genuinely intoxicating. Although the pandemic has taken its toll on the economy, the tech industry is still going strong and shows a lot of promise for startups,” says Tom Quay, CEO of Passenger , a company that develops apps and websites for transport providers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

I don’t meet many rational invests (VCs or LPs) who believe this will last but of course nobody knows whether we have 6 weeks, 6 months or 2 years. So those bullish pipelines your teams have developed that may be completely real in this market environment but at some point will stop materializing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. He went out and found a developer and built a product. They are intoxicating, complex, insightful and tell a great story. He looked stunned. I said that he had been talking about doing this for too long. I said that was my point.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

And I sort of did a many-years-on remembrance of the impact of that lifestyle even for VCs but more so for entrepreneneurs called Entrepreneurshit. Nearly a decade ago they were in Hawaii with their daughter when they were hit head on by another drive – it is implied that the driver had been intoxicated.

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