Four Kinds of Startups

Since part of my job at Redstar Ventures is to meet as many entrepreneurs as possible who might want to co-found a startup with us, I’ve swilled plenty of coffee at Voltage and Peet’s swapping ideas with many a bright, passionate, and inventive entrepreneur. Somewhere into my second gallon of cappuccino, I began to notice a simple pattern emerging in the fundamental approach entrepreneurs have to their ideas. Grossly speaking, the ideas and entrepreneurs that go with them tend to fall into one of four quadrants of the following matrix (with deference and apologies to the BCG Cash Cow)

Joe Chung

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