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Skip Besthoff Discusses Success Or Failure In Business

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  • Date Added : 4/17/2009
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Skip Besthoff

  • General Partner, Castile Ventures
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1970 (Age: 54 years old)
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
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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 guess from my perspective as an investor, there are two...I got to put it in two buckets, right, which Steven, you started to do. One is: Is the company a success or a failure? Two is: Is my investment a success or a failure? There can be many companies that end up being wonderful, very succe...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 9 Skip Besthoff Discusses Success Or Failure In Business
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Skip Besthoff
  • 4 min. 22 sec.
Video 2 of 9 Skip Besthoff Discusses Importance Of Finding Entrepreneurs Who Are Success-Oriented
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Skip Besthoff
  • 2 min. 24 sec.
Video 3 of 9 Skip Besthoff States Venture Capitalists Need To Mitigate Risk
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Skip Besthoff
  • 2 min. 50 sec.
Video 4 of 9 Skip Besthoff Explains Differences Between Entrepreneurs And Venture Capitalists
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Skip Besthoff
  • 1 min. 28 sec.
Video 5 of 9 Thatcher Bell States Reality That It Is A Great Time To Pursue Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Thatcher Bell
  • 3 min. 42 sec.
Video 6 of 9 Thatcher Bell States Importance of Paying Attention and Learning From Experience
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Thatcher Bell
  • 1 min. 35 sec.
Video 7 of 9 Dan Simpkins Discusses Failure, Learning And Recovery
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Daniel Simpkins
  • 1 min. 20 sec.
Video 8 of 9 Dan Simpkins Explains Success Is Measured By How Your Recover From Your Failures
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Daniel Simpkins
  • 2 min. 59 sec.
Video 9 of 9 Skip Besthoff Explains It Is All About The People
  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2009 - Panel - Separating Success From Failure: A Reality Check
  • 4/17/2009
  • Skip Besthoff
  • 2 min. 6 sec.

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