Rob Go
In search of things new and useful.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]