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sheynkman

42 karma · joined July 3, 2011

Senior Managing Director and co-Founder of RTP Ventures. Started 3 software companies, now a VC. Still write code pretty much every night.
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sheynkman··on Ask HN: Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?
I am 48 and a General Partner at a VC fund. On the board of five tech companies. Founded three companies where I was CEO. Coded and still code every day since my Stanford CS days in the late 1980's.

Right now: Scala, Node/AngularJS, Ionic. Use GitHub, CircleCI, and deploy to Docker clusters. Use JIRA to stay sane.

Worked at Oracle, so traditional database (DBA level) and now use Couch + Mongo.

Do my own UI/UX. Can do Photoshop -> LESS/SASS/CSS. Know how to get Gulp to generate spritesheets :-)

Go to tech/programming conferences and meetups.

A full-stack unicorn. How's that for a VC?

sheynkman··on Getting Funded: Step 2, The First Meeting
As promised, the next post in the series is up
sheynkman··on Getting Funded: Step 2, The First Meeting
Happy to help. There are a few more coming. Want to walk everyone through the whole process, especially what due diligence YOU have to do on your VCs. Enjoy.
sheynkman··on Getting funded: Step 0 – Prepare
I will make a point about financial projections... they are there to let the VC know how you think about money vs. setting concrete goals. As far as "where do you see yourself in five years" interview question... my favorite answer was always "firing you." But, seriously, having a vision of where this thing is going is a plus. And I want to see it from the very beginning.