article thumbnail

Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. In some ways having seen these trends before and being a bit more mature (code for I’m 47) I think I feel just a little bit less pressure than I did when I was younger. For investors life is no different.

article thumbnail

VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

article thumbnail

How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.