1) Google raised $25 million from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Would you have invested in Google’s Series A round if they had presented to you?

Joe Rubin, Director, FundingPost: “We received mixed answers – Angel Investors basically said ‘yes’ as they liked technology."

Atul Madahar, Principal, TL Ventures: “No, because it would have been too difficult for us to really understand superiority of their engine without working code. Also Yahoo was dominant search engine at time followed by half a dozen other engines, meta-engines, etc.”

Darren Wallis, Venture Partner, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners: “I would have passed on it because I would have thought business model would not be sustainable, given highly-fragmented space at that time. It just shows you that sometimes you have to look past business model and focus on superior technology. Then, technology drove business model.”

Eric Janszen, Managing Director, Osborn Capital (Early-stage angel fund) “We have certainly invested in bright students with good ideas out of universities, but not recently. Would we have invested in these particular bright students at that time? I was fortunate enough to meet Google's founders last year at Stanford and was impressed by simplicity and clarity of their vision, which had not changed from day one, and no doubt that would have appealed to us then. Most company ideas you see today are features of Cisco or Microsoft products, or business applications.”

We described how a CEO (we called him Richard) can accurately measure and compare candidates for a specific position or work on a specific project.

In this article we continue on to discover additional and deeper critical distinctions Value Profile provides Richard to aid him in his decision to select best candidate.

The insights revealed in fourth section of report provide Richard with an in depth understanding of a candidate's abilities for planning and organizing. People can keep working on a project until they get it right, or they can plan and get organized before they start.

Not everyone has ability to determine what is required to accomplish a project and have it completed on time. Some people have difficulty with directions they have been given or taking on responsibility for a project.

Richard does not have time to "wait and see" if a person will be able to complete project. He wants to know in advance whether or not candidate has ability to logically plan and organize a strategy and carry it out. Using Value Profile, Richard eliminates gut-wrenching process of trying to determine who would be best to work on a crucial project. The Value Profile provides him with a roadmap.

A person's ability to set realistic goals, implement plans and achieve them within a certain time frame can be determined and calculated. The results are plotted on a chart so Richard can see at a glance exactly which candidate excels in this area.

Richard has at his fingertips vital information about a person's ability to keep focused on planning details and activities needed to reach desired outcome. It is one thing to plan and organize, it's another to be self motivated to take action.