View from Seed
JUNE 22, 2016
The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. DAVID: It’s a good point worth unpacking a bit.
View from Seed
MAY 11, 2016
The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.
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Agile VC
JUNE 5, 2011
When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there. Read More ».
www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. Boston Events ›. He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. Subscribe for Free.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. And yet, when I suggest this practice to hiring managers and recruiters alike, they rarely do it. So why is demographic diversity important?
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Greylock’s first fund was also raised from a small handful of wealthy families primarily in the Boston area. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. The first is a staff constraint. Why Write About This Now?
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