After much debate, Bee Partners has opened its AngelList Syndicate and will experiment with this exciting new tool available to both investors as well as entrepreneurs. Here at Bee Partners, we take the concept of ‘Investor’ very seriously, and personal responsibility is an attribute that we look for in the founders we invest with. For us, that responsibility … Read more
Yep, I personally reply to every email I get from a founder. While I’m not quite ready to pledge a response time to those emails, I will take responsibility for having a public email address. The quality and thoughtfulness of a response will vary, for sure, but here are some ideas for you as … Read more
I hope to add more ‘Bee Partners Pledge’ blog posts over the year, but I’ll start with a lingering frustration with other VC websites: “Bee Partners will show every company that it ever invests in on its portfolio page, both past and present.” You’d be surprised how many portfolio pages have been sanitized by … Read more
Today, a founder named Matt (edited for anonymity) dropped by my office to say hi. I left our first meeting a week ago with a positive bias towards supporting his vision and potentially making an investment. However, I also left with skepticism that Matt was holding something back, that the story had been edited and … Read more
I spend most of my time with genesis- and seed-stage entrepreneurs. But today, I had the opportunity to attend a major technology conference here in SF, and hear from various executives from large private and public companies, including Tim Cook from Apple and Steven Cakebread, Pandora’s CFO. I was struck by their incredible poise and articulate comments – … Read more
Okay, so I love public transportation, really, I do! When I lived in New York, I made it a habit to take the subway everyday, going so far as to even taking the Shuttle into Grand Central, which was so packed you couldn’t even read your newspaper. I even wrote an essay for b-school apps … Read more