Rob Go

In search of things new and useful.

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In search of things new and useful.

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My friend David Balter wrote an excellent piece for Inc Magazine about his leadership at BzzAgent and how his hubris nearly sunk the company. It’s an awesome piece that’s worth reading. To continue to spur on the discussion that came […]

Rob Go
July 27, 2011 · < 1  min.

Given that small institutional seed rounds are becoming more and more common, I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on how to best communicate with investors.  After raising this sort of round, it’s usually the first time an […]

Rob Go
July 25, 2011 · 3  min.

I was having dinner last night with someone that has been in the financial services industry for the last 8 years.   He made a comment that I completely agree with. He remarked that many people go in his field […]

Rob Go
July 11, 2011 · 2  min.

I reblogged an awesome post last week about how non-technical founders need to step thinking about “finding” a technical co-founder and “earning” a technical co-founder. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and talking to Jason Jacobs at RunKeeper this afternoon, I […]

Rob Go
July 11, 2011 · 2  min.

I’ve been using this slightly chauvinistic metaphor a fair bit recently, so please forgive me 🙂 It’s always interesting to me to watch how entrepreneurs evaluate VC investors.  If you are in the luxurious position to be able to choose […]

Rob Go
July 8, 2011 · 3  min.

I never had a great appreciation for the temptation to revise history until I became a VC. We all do it. VC’s say “I knew that was a bad investment” when one of their partners’ companies is struggling.  Or we […]

Rob Go
June 24, 2011 · 2  min.

We’ve been witnessing an institutionalizing of angel investing in recent years.  For the most part, it’s good. There continues to be a gap in the market for stage appropriate seed investors, especially in the East Coast.  But it’s interesting to […]

Rob Go
June 21, 2011 · 3  min.

Tons of chatter recently about the remarkable growth of companies like AirBnB and Square.  I’m big fans of both, and love how ambitious those companies are trying to be (and progressing nicely).  Even if some folks perceive the market as […]

Rob Go
June 1, 2011 · 3  min.

I’ve been having this conversation quite a few times over the last several weeks, so I thought it would be important to do a post on this.The question that I often get asked is “how should I think about the […]

Rob Go
May 18, 2011 · 5  min.

I met with a few entrepreneurs recently who left interesting companies to pursue their own ideas.  In both cases, they wanted to experiment with a number of different concepts and had plenty of runway to figure out where they ultimately […]

Rob Go
May 12, 2011 · 3  min.