Friday, October 07, 2005

VC Adventure: Attributes of a good venture capitalist

VC Adventure: Attributes of a good venture capitalist

Attributes of a good venture capitalist

When I was interviewing for my job at Mobius I asked Dave Jilk - who had briefly been an associate at Mobius and was then (as he is now) running a portfolio company - what he thought the most important attributes of successful VCs were (as an aside, I don’t know that I appreciated at the time what a good sign it was that the VC I was interviewing to joined had me interview not only with MDs and other associates, but also with portfolio company CEO’s to get their take).

Without hesitation he said that in a nutshell good VCs need to have attention deficit disorder.

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