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As in http://cbinsights.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c60818e... "73% of tech exits were not VC-backed". So, maybe that 73% consists of the quiet ones
being successful. If you want a mentor to guide you to start
a US Main Street business, say, auto body repair,
grass mowing, landscaping, a pizza shop, etc.,
then there is no shortage of good sources. But where did the founders of Microsoft, Intel,
Cisco, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. find
comparable mentors, that is, people who
had already done something quite similar and
could provide good advice? Yes, there was
advice, but nothing nearly so accurate as what
could get for, say, a pizza shop. Net,
if are building one of the companies VCs
really need, then there isn't any mentoring
that is very close to the need. So, net,
for building a $1+ billion or, now, $10+
billion company in information technology,
largely just f'get about mentoring. |