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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. The problem was that he was still working out the lock-up period in his big company. Few people have it. He had built and sold his first company and had good ideas for his second company. I finally called bullshit.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. ” Mark – doesn’t the acquiring company mostly care about the super innovative founders?