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To Get This VC's Attention, Stop Making Spreadsheet-Based Decisions

One VC explains why he backed three startups.
Howard Lindzon

Howard Lindzon is an irreverent buzz machine who powers through wall-to-wall meetings on five milligrams of Adderall. A prolific blogger and serial entrepreneur (, a Twitter for traders, is his crown jewel), Lindzon is founder and general partner at , an eclectic seed fund. He typically finds entrepreneurs before they find him. Here’s what he likes: founders who show, solve problems and won’t crumple in chaos. Here’s what he ignores: business-news TV and spreadsheet-based decisions. His fund’s average investment: about $600,000.

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