{"id":48,"date":"2006-02-02T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/02\/if-only-more-vcs-and-investors-thought-this-way\/"},"modified":"2006-02-02T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:37:24","slug":"if-only-more-vcs-and-investors-thought-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/02\/if-only-more-vcs-and-investors-thought-this-way\/","title":{"rendered":"If only more VCs (and investors) thought this way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the scariest phrases\/clich\u00c3\u00a9I hear in board meetings and conversations among VCs is .we need a suit to run this company. or its cousin .we need a suit to take this company public.. It is so scary because so many suits are empty.<\/p>\n<p>All it takes is one company destroyed by an <strong>empty suit<\/strong> to make you realize that it.s what is in the head and the heart that matters not what kind of clothes the person wears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This guy (Fred Wilson from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatironpartners.com\">FlatIron Partners<\/a> in NYC) is my new hero.  It doesn&#8217;t hurt that they are an investor in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiquity.com\/\">what might actually save broadcast radio<\/a>, HD (Digital) Radio.  That, and he specifically mentions facial hair, something near and dear to my chin, in his list of things cliche VCs don&#8217;t want to find on people running companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2006\/02\/vc_clich_of_the.html\">A VC: VC Clich\u00c3\u00a9f the Week<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the scariest phrases\/clich\u00c3\u00a9I hear in board meetings and conversations among VCs is .we need a suit to run this company. or its cousin .we need a suit to take this company public.. It is so scary because so many suits are empty. All it takes is one company destroyed by an empty suit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/02\/if-only-more-vcs-and-investors-thought-this-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If only more VCs (and investors) thought this way&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}