by Brad Feld January 13, 2007

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 they like to invest in, they give some very specific examples from their current portfolio. It’s a great view inside Fred and […]

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 they like to invest in, they give some very specific examples from their current portfolio. It’s a great view inside Fred and Brad’s heads, but it’s also a very useful framework for entrepreneurs to think about how they’ll be viewed by a VC.

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January 1, 2012

Raouf: 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 things that start up again on January 1st, we’ll try to get back […]

April 9, 2007

Is 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 cliches about how important either (a) the team is or (b) the idea is. Unfortunately for the young venture capitalist, […]

January 8, 2012

Ehrenberg: 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 often where I think VCs regularly screw up that I bring up in the comments. I’d encourage […]

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