Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

The Startup Experience Advantage #ai #venturecapital #duet #siliconvalley

21 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Charles Hudson (speaker) argues that prior startup experience — not necessarily as a founder but having worked at a zero-to-one or very small startup — gives people a better sense of pacing and urgency. In a VC context, that experience helps investors evaluate companies and adjust advising/management plans over short timelines (e.g., six months). Those without such experience often struggle with knowing what to accomplish daily, though some naturally urgent people can acclimate.

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But it's six months. You can evaluate the company and you can change your plan as a VC for how you want to advise and manage this investment. And so I started looking at the companies that weren't fast and I was like, well, what are, what are some of the characteristics? And one of the big ones I started noticing is people who have previous startup experience, not necessarily as the founder, but having been in a zero to one or very small startup. I think your sense of pacing and urgency is just better. You have some sense of, well, what can a startup get done in a day and what does good and speed feel like? And I found that people who didn't have that experience, some of them were able to naturally acclimate because they were just naturally aggressive, urgent people. But a lot of people were just sort of like, well, what am I supposed to get done today? And think I.