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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.

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The Future of Web Startups

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October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone.

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