March 13, 2010

Everything I didn’t learn about startups as a VC (…or why VCs don’t make good ent

Charlie O’Donnell - This is going to be BIG

There are a lot of great venture capitalists who started out as entrepreneurs like Vinod Khosla or Josh Kopelman.  Going the other way, however, seems to be a bit tougher.  In fact, I don’t really know anyone who has successfully gone the other way.  Many entrepreneurs turned VCs wind up going back, but to start out on the investment side and then successfully launch a company seems to happen much less frequently.  There are exceptions to everything, of course, but as someone who started out ...