{"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…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

All it takes is one company destroyed by an 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

This guy (Fred Wilson from FlatIron Partners<\/a> in NYC) is my new hero. It doesn’t hurt that they are an investor in 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’t want to find on people running companies.<\/p>\n

A VC: VC Clich\u00c3\u00a9f the Week<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading If only more VCs (and investors) thought this way…<\/span> →<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t