This is a topic of passion for me – as a venture capitalist, how do I improve the governance function I perform for the early stage companies for which I serve as a director?
This post was sparked by an article in yesterday’s WSJ by John Brennan entitled, “Improving Corporate Governance: A Memo to The Board” [...]
Unless you are hiring someone with whom you have previous extensive experience (and sometimes even then!), hiring is always a near 50/50 proposition.
In my experience, the best way to succeed in hiring is do a reasonable job screening applicants, but do it incredibly quickly. Screening applicants can be very time consuming, and every additional moment [...]
In the past week, I attended two events where I had to evaluate startup pitches delivered to investors: a boot camp for the upcoming 3RVF conference in Pittsburgh, and the interim demo day at AlphaLab. Both events were dry-run practice sessions so that presenting companies could be more polished when they were actually on the [...]
The good folks over at Project Olympus, where I am an advisor, have asked me to post about a very interesting aspect of the work they are doing: matching potential CEO candidates with faculty/research students who have promising research projects or technologies that are ready to be spun-out into nascent businesses.
They are going to organize [...]
Hey Pittsburgh Ventures readers, I’m Matt Humphrey. I am a Pittsburgh native, an alumnus of CMU Computer Science and Tepper MBA, Y-Combinator 2007, and serial startup guy who did a number of things in Pittsburgh from virtual worlds to content delivery to consumer internet and a lot in between. For the last twelve months I [...]