I just ran across Jeff Bussgang’s post titled, VCs Blink.  Jeff’s post discusses how Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, relates to the world of venture capital.  Specifically, Jeff talks about how VCs blink all the time – they frequently make intuitive and fast decisions about what investments to make and what teams to back.  From his post:

I’m not a venture capitalist, but because I do some investing and work with several VCs finding and evaluating deals, I get to see a lot of  plans and have the chance to meet many people working on new ventures. In the last year, the volume of plans that I’ve seen and entrepreneurs I’ve met [...]