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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