Rob Go

In search of things new and useful.

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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.

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.

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.

VC’s grill entrepreneurs all the time about how they will win vs. their competitors.  What’s your “secret sauce”?  How do you have an “unfair advantage”? How do you “get to first base” in light of many other competitors? What entrepreneurs […]

Rob Go
March 22, 2011 · 4  min.

Hi, I’m a tech VC on Twitter. I’m @xyzvc My icon is cool.  It’s a painting/cartoon/wacky photo.  Shows that I’m hip and approachable.  But when I meet with you, I’ll still crush your dreams.  I tweet about technology, but occassionaly […]

Rob Go
August 1, 2010 · 2  min.

I remember early on in my VC career, I chatted with an entrepreneur turned VC who remarked “as an entrepreneur, time is your enemy.  As a VC, time is your friend.” What I think some VC’s mean when they say […]

Rob Go
May 27, 2010 · 4  min.

Valuations in venture backed companies seem to be a mystery to most.Even in the past 18 months, when it was close to impossible to raisemoney, we’ve seen valuations in early stage companies that caused alot of headscratching (Square, Foursquare, Groupon, […]

Rob Go
May 10, 2010 · 2  min.

I wrote a post on Sunday about Why the VC Business is like a big game of Texas Hold’Em. As folks pointed out, it’s not a perfect analogy, but there are major similarities because of the interplay of skill and […]

Rob Go
March 15, 2010 · 4  min.

There has been some chatter on Twitter about the value of pitching to VC associates. Thought I’d lob in my 2 cents on the shuttle to NYC. Full disclosure – I am a senior associate at Spark Capital. Roles have […]

Rob Go
February 23, 2010 · 3  min.

Larry Cheng at Volition Capital has put together some excellent lists of top VC bloggers and top VC websites by traffic. Obviously, these measurement methods aren’t perfect (he uses a rolling 3 month average of unique visitors from Compete), but […]

Rob Go
February 3, 2010 · 3  min.