VCs don't want to hear what you can do, they want to stretch you Entrepreneurs shouldn't think conservatively about goals because it may only serve to make them lazy. Moreover, they'll fail to realize their abilities. This is a lesson we've heard from entrepreneurs and one underscored in this "Lessons learned" segment with Keith McCurdy, CEO and founder of Vivaty, a 3D platform backed by Kleiner Perkins and Mohr Davidow - to invest $9.2 million in his company. Keith advises entrepreneurs to "think big" mindset, even though he came from a culture where promising what you can't do wasn't acceptable. "I worked at Electronic Arts and I was trained to promise what you can do. We were a company of execution," he explained. " The problem is that VCs "don’t want to hear what ... [ Read more ]