{"id":675,"date":"2007-12-10T01:37:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T05:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/12\/10\/michael-arringtons-entrepreneur-post\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:38:40","slug":"michael-arringtons-entrepreneur-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/12\/10\/michael-arringtons-entrepreneur-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Arrington’s Entrepreneur Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Arrington talked about entrepreneurs<\/a> the second time around today. I think he should segment that audience further into dot com era and other era projects.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you\u2019d expect entrepreneurs who\u2019ve been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I\u2019ve spoken with have said that too many \u201cold guard\u201d entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it\u2019s hurting their startups.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here in Chicago this is even more pronounced. There are a number of people who talk about amounts of funding they raised in 1999. They live off that first mover advantage. Why aren’t people judging each deal independently of the personalities involved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Arrington talked about entrepreneurs the second time around today. I think he should segment that audience further into dot com era and other era projects. Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you\u2019d expect entrepreneurs who\u2019ve been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t