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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? It was May.