Excellent post by @cdixon reminding us that pitching yourself and your team is more important than pitching your idea. Ideas are all over the place but the credibility of a team with a track record is significantly more valuable to a potential investor. Further, when building that core team, make sure that they have the “it” factor with demonstrated ROI.

I wanted to point out a couple of interesting articles today.

Chris Dixon talks about the ideal startup career path over on his blog. I agree completely and have been a recent fan of his thoughts and ideas. Further, he discusses and quotes a point that Aaron Cohen makes that “…you shouldn’t think of joining a start-up as just joining a company. You should think of it as joining the start-up career path.”

Will Herman via VentureBeat talks about how auto racing and start-ups aren’t that different. Admittedly, I am not that much of a fan of auto racing but I can appreciate the correlation and think that his points are absolutely valuable. ”It’s often easy to get caught with your head down, focused on near-term problems and opportunities while ignoring the big picture and where the new enterprise should be headed.”