Customer experience as a measure of startup success

Entrepreneurs I meet always have full conviction that their ventures are going to become hugely successful and path breaking. No doubt, some of them will. My challenge (and that of every VC and i-banker) is to figure out which ones are more likely than others to become very successful ventures. Fact...

Deepak Srinath

Negotiating ‘Time Bomb’ Term Sheets

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, the best VC blogger in my opinion, recently referred to a blog post on negotiating job offers and said, “Replace the words ‘job offer’ with ‘term sheet’ in @spolsky’s post and the advice is still spot on.” What Fred is referring to here is the ...