The most important quality to look for in founders?
It might be grit, determination, tenacity.
Find evidence that the founder has attempted difficult things, and seen them through to the end.
This is a quality that @helen_min of Articulate describes as "stick-with-it-ness".
The latest episode of Going Solo is with @helen_min, the founder of Articulate, a $10 million pre-seed fund she launched earlier this year, and a venture partner at @trueventures.
Helen has been in San Francisco's tech ecosystem for 20 years, mostly as an operator rather than an
The recent @TIME ranking used alumni surveys to score accelerators and incubators across measures that broadly reflected satisfaction.
But what greater measure of satisfaction is there than having the best shot at success?
Over the last two decades, @ycombinator has
One of the most important things you can do when beginning to invest in startups it to control the key variables:
- Portfolio size
- Check size
- Your process for getting to a "yes"
Don't throw money at a company because they pitch you when you're having a great day.
The latest episode of Going Solo is with @helen_min, the founder of Articulate, a $10 million pre-seed fund she launched earlier this year, and a venture partner at @trueventures.
Helen has been in San Francisco's tech ecosystem for 20 years, mostly as an operator rather than an