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Paul, I think you need to take the next step here which is getting out of the venture business. The whole venture industry is based on your startup founders bec
by tonystubblebine 19y ago
Paul, I think you need to take the next step here which is getting out of the venture business. The whole venture industry is based on your startup founders becoming bosses or being acquired by companies with bosses. Even if they end up rich afterward, the availability of the money is directly tied to other programmers getting duped into working unnaturally (with bosses). Have you considered leading your startups toward a small business path? More here:
http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2008/03/take-the-next-step-paul/ http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2008/03/take-the-next-s...
- pg 19y agoWe actively encourage startups to stay as small as possible for as long as possible. And like all investors we would prefer the startups we fund to go public rather than get acquired. I bet if you outsourced all the inessential stuff you could grow a company to that stage without needing more than 150 people, which you could do with only two layers.