David Hornik is a partner at August Capital and sits on the board of directors of DoneRight, Nomis Solutions, PayCycle, Six Apart, Splunk Technology and VideoEgg. He previously served on the board of Evite which was acquired by Ticketmaster and he was a board observer with Tickle, which was later acquired by Monster. He has taught business and law internationally and is a lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. But what he is most well known for is being the first venture capitalist to begin blogging about the industry. His blog, aptly called VentureBlog, has over 50,000 subscribers which is more than the seating capacity at Fenway Park. He also hosts a podcast called VentureCast and authors several personal blogs, including SaysMe, which had me laughing out loud. Listen in to hear his advice for entrepreneurs.

 

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