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You Can’t Report to Yourself

You Can’t Report to Yourself

By Derek Pilling on November 6, 2009

Everyone needs someone to report to; even VCs. This may sound strange coming from a VC. Some entrepreneurs who choose to raise venture capital have great disdain for the necessary evil of reporting to their investors. That disdain is appropriate to the extent investors are asking for mundane information that creates a reporting burden and […]

Posted in General | Tagged advisory board, Boards, lessons learned, limited partners, reporting, venture capital

Cognitive Dissonance: Are you a technology or a service?

Cognitive Dissonance: Are you a technology or a service?

By Derek Pilling on August 5, 2009

One of the trends I’ve observed over the past several years is that more and more technology entrepreneurs are starting service-delivery business.  By services businesses, I’m referring to the category of businesses that some venture investors refer to as technology-enabled services (“TES”). We at Meritage prefer the term network-enabled services (“NES”), which we think more […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business models, capital efficiency, cloud computing, compeititve advantage, Economics, execution, lessons learned, risk, saas, service business, services, Technology, venture capital | 1 Response

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