Scale Venture’s Sharon Wienbar: Don't make tactical decisions from the wrong vantage point Recently, I heard my brother-in-law, Demian Entrekin, advise an entrepreneur to look at her startup as a building and step outside of it every once rather than get mired in dealing with the plumbing. Before working on tiny details, first figure out if anyone wants to use the facilities. Maybe it's the location that's the problem, not the internal workings inside the company.In like vein, Sharon Wienbar, VC at Scale Venture Partners and a recent judge of the Catalyst Competition, said that entrepreneurs need to be clear-minded and hard-nosed in order to step out of the situation and look at their startup from a "critical vantage point."In many ways, being an entrepreneur is like being in hand-to-hand combat daily, she ...   [ Read more ]