Archive for May, 2011

Passion: What we value most part 2

Friday, May 6th, 2011 by ryan

While I may sound obvious, passion for markets and technologies and ultimately for building a business is incredibly important to us as investors. Passion has a clear emotional connotation and I choose that word deliberately. Building a business is an emotional endeavor. It takes blood, sweat and tears and it seems just about impossible to me that one would be able to come out the other side without having had the experience been an emotional one in addition to all the other things like selling to customers, hiring a great team, raising money from venture investors and hopefully building a tremendous amount of value for all stakeholders.  Passion can also have a strong mix of (blind) faith and determination.
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