Thomas Thurston, Managing Director At WR Hambrecht Ventures and FTF: Conference 2015 SpeakerThomas Thurston, Managing Director At WR Hambrecht Ventures and FTF: Conference 2015 Speaker

"It matters which customers you target; how you solve their problems; what competitors you encounter; what tradeoffs you break; how you operate on a day-to-day basis. Put simply, how do you make money? These are the factors – drab as they may be – that we’ve found the most predictive, statistically speaking. If all you do is pair a good business with a team that won’t screw it up, odds are you’re already focusing on better stuff than most."