Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shahamazon.com
Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications, ... See more
Do Things that Don't Scale
You always want to be on the right side of history because you’re building a company as a public company, [even if] it’s five to fifteen years in the future. So you definitely want to be on the right arc of history. You don’t want to be investing in things that are clearly going in the opposite direction. But it’s the entrepreneur’s job to match re
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Livingston: Was there ever a time when a competitor did something that made you fearful? Currier: iVillage started copying us, and I was very worried about it for probably a year, and then it all just faded away. Probably because it's hard to get the engineers, the psychologists, and the writers to talk to one another. You've got to build a culture
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