Comments on: John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins on building Intuit http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit Good advice for startups Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Doerr on building Intuit | satisfy my soul http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit/comment-page-1#comment-611 John Doerr on building Intuit | satisfy my soul Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:26:34 +0000 http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit#comment-611 [...] excellent review of John Doerr’s introduction to Inside Intuit. “Inside Intuit is a tale of missionaries, [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Gill http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit/comment-page-1#comment-610 Jonathan Gill Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:21:14 +0000 http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit#comment-610 I realized long ago that sometimes the one to build the ship isn’t necessarily the best captain. I’ve used the analogy a few times because it points out the difference in skills needed to perform the set of tasks involved in starting and running a company. I have no problem admitting that I’m not sure that most entrepreneurs are capable of doing one or the other or both (or even if they should from a cost/benefit or value add perspective).

As an entrepreneur of a company that you do not intend to be solely a lifestyle company (e.g. lifestyle

]]> By: Quicken User http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit/comment-page-1#comment-609 Quicken User Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:35:59 +0000 http://venturehacks.com/articles/intuit#comment-609 Unfortunately, Quicken has turned into one of the buggiest software I have ever used. Their tech support nowadays are worthless and incompetent. I almost always gets a nonsensical answer from an India call center guy. To this day, Quicken software cannot reliably update my stock quotes with the latest data. Everytime I sync, I have to check my quotes to ensure they are updated, sometimes they aren’t but I have made it a point to check *every* time. This remains a simple problem they are unable to resolve to this day.

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