Entreprenetics: Pressure to Perform in a Startup Business

When you raise investment dollars from outside investors, whether you admit it or not, you’re going to feel pressure to perform. I’ve been there myself from both the entrepreneur and venture capital side of the equation. There is the same pressure to perform on the startup as the pressure to perform as the investor.

You see it often — entrepreneurs raise capital from venture capital and they think they’ve made it. But in reality the pressure to perform has just escalated to another level. And...