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founder selection
...founders out there having to do things that they would never want to do. And I have seen some founders that you would not even think of that actually were in very, very difficult situation because of the bot. The problem is that when you start having
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...thing a founder can look for in their VC is a lazy VC. Because truth be told, VCs don't add value and the best founders build the companies themselves. So if you pick anything, pick a lazy VC. Do you agree? Well, I think that lazy is probably in a di
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in my approach to the point where I started Cyber Starts in 2018. I decided that I would not even ask them about market or technology or product, you know. So I meet with a team, a new team, which I don't know, and we spend an hour speaking about the
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...founders spiking exceptionally on some of these and maybe less on on some others. For them, it's the ability to put a fantastic team together and and then show them the way as opposed to getting high marks on on all of these dimensions. Do you know o
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...cofounder. And we know that you can get these absolutely magical pairs that can build and create things that neither neither of those individuals could have done alone. So, yeah, we would, we're very happy to to help you properly evaluate your your c
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Sure. It's part of, you know, sense of urgency, which is another common theme that, you know, we've heard about many times on the podcast. But if you make a decision, just go and do it as soon as you're out of the door, pretty much. And speed of iter
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...a founder to be in every recruiting loop. They are still the pacesetter, the, like, bar setter for the company in terms of talent density and talent philosophy, but they should set some threshold for themselves of, like, senior manager and up or some
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...a founder in sort of this this business was with venture capital dollars, the big push to hire seasoned pedigreed c suite executives. Not as easy as it sounds. Very difficult. I would really question every founder who's trying to overhire too fast in
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...founders when you met them the early days of the traits they had that really got you convinced to go on a journey with them? No. I found that there is no factory of founders, and they are coming in so many different shapes. I will say maybe one thing
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...founders out there. And I was very lucky because as a VC, I had a huge network where I could learn what have been the companies that, you know, scaled in the best way, that were the most respected as founders, etcetera.
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...are founder centric. There is a way to measure founder centrality mathematically. You basically have to scrape tons of LinkedIn data. We, a long time ago, supported some really cool academic research on using network dominance to predict venture fund
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