Portfolio Reputation Technical Cofounder 
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2010
Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have. Your employees can’t also be your friends.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
One of my favorite things about the tech industry is that reputations and relationships matter. One of my bosses at CitySearch was John Pleasants , who was later CEO of Playdom , one of our portfolio companies, and sold it to Disney. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. We were able to invest!
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
One of my favorite things about the tech industry is that reputations and relationships matter. One of my bosses at CitySearch was John Pleasants , who was later CEO of Playdom , one of our portfolio companies, and sold it to Disney. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. We were able to invest!
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. However, there is still work to be done.
David Teten
AUGUST 20, 2019
In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Creating the right incentives and reputation system would lead to a directory people would be a part of. It has reputation. Our answer: a network. eBay has a network.
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