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Wharton Global Alumni Forum, San Francisco, 2011
A VC with operating or entrepreneurial experience is a valuable strategic partner. VC operators have “been there and done that,” and have learned a lot along the way.
Starting companies is hard. As one serial entrepreneur with many successes puts it, “Starting up a company is the absolute hardest thing I know how to do—it is also the most rewarding.”
Mentoring is an age-old practice of transferring knowledge and experience through personal relationships. But how many VCs actually mentor entrepreneurs?
No entrepreneur or VC would be successful without a passion for the spark of genius and unbridled energy that every successful start-up has at its core.
John Hess says he had a very good reason for taking up painting: He was driving his wife crazy.
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