Venture Learnings

By way of introduction, I'm David Scott Carlick and I have been in the ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ now for almost thirty years. I started an ad agency in the late 1970s in Silicon Valley to serve the needs of startups, which I eventually found out were backed by ‘venture capital.’ Over that time, I worked with hundreds of companies and thousands of new products and ideas, some of which became institutions, some of which blossomed and then withered, and most of which never got anywhere meaningful. So I have a lot of experience, and experience, as you all know, is what you get when you don’t get the money.