Success at the portfolio level doesn't necessarily mean success at the individual level. In fact, it's almost never the case.
Become a VC for your own ideas. Don't be a bet in someone else's portfolio. Be the portfolio.
Doing all of the things you genuinely love doing seems like it wouldn’t be hard but it is. This is for many reasons (that I am discovering and writing about here) but one of the strongest sources of discouragement can be that specialists tend to find traditional success faster than generalists. Simply put, by dividing your focus across many areas,... See more