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Skip Besthoff Explains It Is All About The People

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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.

At the end of the day for me, 80 to 90% of the failures that I've seen, in some way, shape, or form, have come back to management. And at the end of the day, it is a people business. And one specific scenario that I'm thinking about is...I had a company. It was a startup company in a wonderful marke...(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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