Skip Besthoff is a General Partner at Castile Ventures.
Besthoff has an investment focus in software-as-a-service, Internet commerce, and digital media. He led Castile's investment in Enquisite and serves on its board of directors. Castile Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides backing and strategic guidance to help exceptional entrepreneurs build successful technology businesses.
Prior to Castile, Besthoff was a principal at Rho Ventures. Prior to Rho, he spent seven years in a variety of strategic and technology consulting roles service emerging technology companies and Fortune 500 clients. Besthoff had a five-year tenure with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where as a manager he led large-scale systems development and integration projects.
Skip Besthoff received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College and his MBA from Cornell University.
I would say, to a certain degree, venture 101, the playbook if you will, is you always try to mitigate risks. You always try to stage your investments and you always try to build towards milestones. My role as a, people think about, Ah...You're a VC. Swashbuckling guy. You must hit or take risks ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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