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Saturday, 02 March 2013

Fred Wilson, VC: Starting Up Just to Start Up Isn't a Good Idea

Via (@whartonmagazine 11:59 AM - Feb 28, 2013)

Famed VC contrarian Fred Wilson, WG’87, speaks at a @HarvardHBS class on eight pearls of wisdom for #startups. http://ow.ly/i92Qt

Inc. Feb 28, 2013

Despite being a Wharton and MIT guy, my friend Fred Wilson has been kind enough to attend my class at HBS for the last few years. Yesterday was another terrific one.

On career choices: "You'll learn more doing your own start-up [versus joining someone else's]. But doing a start-up for the sake of doing a start-up isn't a good idea."

VCs look for passionate, authentic founders who actually believe they can defy gravity." (I think this was me but Fred seemed to agree)

"There's value in having a founding team with a crazy person with vision alongside a co-founder grounded in logic and analytics."

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