Ventures
One thing I'm always on the lookout for with people. Are they moving quickly? Are they evolving quickly? In my view, at the end of the day, when you're betting on a founder, especially if the market's not super clear, what you're trying to do is, you're trying to predict that, that particular person will have as many shots on goal as possible
... See moreDaniel Gross • Finding Undiscovered Talent
Executives If you succeed, at some point you need to hire executives. Engineers In the technology business, you can never know enough great engineers. Press and analysts We have a saying around the firm: Show it, sell it; hide it, keep it. Investors and acquirers Being venture capitalists, providing access to money was obvious.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The time has come to acknowledge expertise as overvalued. There is no question that expertise and hedgehog logic are appropriate in certain domains (i.e. hard sciences), but they certainly appear less fitting for domains plagued with uncertainty, ambiguity, and poorly-defined dynamics (i.e. social sciences, business, etc.). The time has come for le... See more
Vikram Mansharamani • All Hail the Generalist
The Goal: To Act More Like A Successful Startup The Do or Die Mindset Live Your PVTV (Purpose, Vision, Tenets, and Values) Trust in the Right People Move at the Speed of Startup
Jeff Hilimire • The 5-Day Turnaround: Be the leader you always wanted to be. (the Turnaround Leadership Series)
The Hedgehog Concept was one of the principles of greatness outlined in Jim Collins’s 2001 bestseller Good to Great.8 As Collins’s research indicated, great companies refused to do anything that did not fit with their Hedgehog Concept, and they made as much use of stop-doing lists as to-do lists.