A VC's Greatest Value-Add Is Keeping Founders Focused on Forward-Looking Strategy
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Jeff Seibert, co-founder of Digits, evaluates how venture capital investors can best provide strategic help to founders.
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“What I think is most helpful is when your investors are always looking forward because they're not caught up in the day to day. And many founders get so caught up in the day to day, their context switching, their racing between fires, that they sort of lose track of what's important in the bigger picture. And so to me, a great face C is basically always looking forward for their company, drawing the founders to spend time on what's really important.”
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