Cofounder IPO Partner Reputation 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 26, 2015
If you grew up inside of Facebook through its rise, its IPO and it becoming an 800-pound gorilla you will see the world through that lens precisely because you are so powerful that you’re used to getting your way because you’re, well, Facebook. Even big countries must be mindful of Hobbesian forces.
BeyondVC
MARCH 21, 2017
See Jeff Leventhal’s post ( boldstart venture partner and Workrails cofounder/CEO) on why services continue to matter for cloud vendors. Our sales process is highly dependent on the quality of our applications, the reputation of our business and positive recommendations from our existing customers.
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Hunter Walker
JANUARY 17, 2014
During my more than nine years as a Google product lead and now as a partner at Homebrew, I’ve seen many discussions between a rock star at a big company and a startup founder go awry. One way to suss this out – ask the co-workers about the metrics or key performance indicators they owned. Who did they report to?
Growthink Blog
AUGUST 14, 2010
The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. Here's why: You, Mr. or Ms.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Until you IPO, feeling like you’re good may just depend on what part of the fundraising cycle you’re taking a snapshot of your companies in. Since I started coaching investors , especially non-partners and partners at emerging funds, I’ve been asked the same questions in all sorts of ways: “What things should I be doing to be great?”
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. It has reputation. Reid Hoffman.
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.
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