DISQUS

VentureBeat: Hey VCs, it’s not your company!

  • Adam Dole · 2 weeks ago
    Brad,
    Great perspective! Taking funding from VC's and giving up equity is a very scary experience. Whether it is through the language we use, or the mindset applied to an investment, finding ways to build empathy and ultimately build the two-way trust needed to successfully bring a new product or service to market, will only return more positive results for everyone in the end.
  • Geoff H · 2 weeks ago
    There are definitely some great blogs and advice being handed out by VCs. It is starting to even turn around the terrible image VCs developed in the 90s and early 00s.
  • orajean1 · 2 weeks ago
    Brad,
    Great perspective. If only the edge could be taken out of the process. Gone are the days of deals by discussion, three day deals, deals on a handshake (Warren Buffett excepted, of course, considering how BNSF went down).

    Great Sunny Weekend, here in CO,
    Ora
  • Andee Sellman, One Sherpa · 2 weeks ago
    Very interesting post.
    I guess that CEO's are also a fairly precious group of people and they have an ego as well. Upsetting the ego of the CEO is more likely to produce a negative lasting affect on a company than upsetting the VC in the short term
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