Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 8, 2013
But, as I’ve said in my post Your Words Should Match Your Actions , one can “ damage their reputations by having their words not match up with their actions.” But I’m amazed at how the reputational damage follows the person around. Venture Capital actions entrepreneur life reputation VC words'
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 29, 2015
By the time I co-founded what became Mobius Venture Capital, Softbank (our sponsor – at the time we were called Softbank Venture Capital) was the key investor in Yahoo, E*trade, and a number of other large US-based Internet companies. But I was clear that none of these were fundamentally issues for the big company.
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Feld Thoughts
JULY 12, 2014
It was a generic rant that resulted from me watching a couple of VCs blow up their reputations with entrepreneurs I know because of how they treated them. It doesn’t matter – if they haven’t internalized the idea of their words and actions matching up, there is a long negative reputational effect.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
This happens regularly in M&A deals especially with buyers who are buying thinly capitalized companies or ones who don’t care about their long term reputation. I viewed it as a normal part of business, which impacted an investor or acquirer’s long term reputation, but was woven into the fabric of things.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
And developing a reputation for recapping seed rounds is, in my book, silly. In a single turn game, this might be rational behavior. But in a multi-turn game that lasts for a very long time, across multiple contexts, this is a bad strategy. The post The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
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