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Comment on The most valuable thing about writing a Business Plan by ostrov

ostrov — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:00:44 +0000

Thank you,
very interesting article

Comment on Building a team? Think like a chef by Getting out of the starvation mentality « Adventure Capitalist

Getting out of the starvation mentality « Adventure Capitalist — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:51:52 +0000

[...] focus on being extremely efficient with capital and resources. As I pointed out in my recent post, Building a Team? Think like a Chef, there is never enough time nor resources to do things optimally, so improvisation becomes the [...]

Comment on The Forbes Midas List is out. Let the gloating and grumbling begin by Finally, a top 100 VC list worthy of Midas « Adventure Capitalist

Finally, a top 100 VC list worthy of Midas « Adventure Capitalist — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:36:14 +0000

[...] criticisms of their version and how they compiled their rankings. My biggest gripe, from my blog post at the time, was that the presence of attorneys, investment bankers and other “service providers” [...]

Comment on The most valuable thing about writing a Business Plan by Robert H. Heath

Robert H. Heath — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:05:12 +0000

Or as Blaise Pascal said, “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”

It takes a long time to write a short presentation.

Comment on $15 Billion Folly by Social Networking: Let’s Get Vertical « Adventure Capitalist

Social Networking: Let’s Get Vertical « Adventure Capitalist — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:20:15 +0000

[...] of the social web and related platforms; and, (b) stickiness. Some time back I took issue in a post with a then-$15B valuation for Facebook imputed by a Microsoft investment and pointed out some of [...]

Comment on The Rise of the Pledge Fund by When Angel capital is not so ‘angelic’ « Adventure Capitalist

When Angel capital is not so ‘angelic’ « Adventure Capitalist — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:17:52 +0000

[...] those rounds closed at all. Indeed, one of my more popular posts over the last couple years, The Rise of the Pledge Fund, focused upon the emergence of “fundless” or non-committed funds that were targeting [...]

Comment on Phone Book economics by Tom St. Louis

Tom St. Louis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:03:00 +0000

What a good observation there. Content “pushing” only makes this interesting times worse. What do you see inside (and even outside) the yellow pages? It’s funny how companies expect content pushing or “shoving” as a way to compete with the dominant modern internet and at the same time expect masses of consumers to rally behind them.

Comment on Dash: a dud? or a defining device? by JasonT.

JasonT. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:02:07 +0000

The unit wouldn’t acquire satellites until the third try, and then for maybe 30 seconds. It informed me that the condo I was sitting accross the street from was a 7-11 store. Then it said “satellite signal weak” and quit working. A visit to the Garmin site showed a very relaxed attitude about whether I should even expect it to work at all, with outlandish suggestions like placing it outside my car to get it to work (and it didn’t). I live in the heart of Chicago so there’s absolutely no excuse for it not to work. I’m on the lakefront so its view of the sky was completely unobstructed. I’ll never buy anything made by Garmin again.

Comment on Dash: a dud? or a defining device? by JonhT.

JonhT. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:13:47 +0000

Im a long time Garmin eTrex Legend user. Was a holdout on buying a color, talking GPS for the car (“What’s wrong w/ the good old eTrex?”). But having bought one, and recently field tested on a week long trip to downtown Houston, I’m sold. I love it. The one tweek I had to make was to replace the “car” icon with a more standard arrow (I could never tell which direction the car was pointing; I run the GPS w/ North up). The icon was easily replaced w/ a download from the Garmin site.

Comment on Pitchcraft 101 by Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:09:34 +0000

Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content!

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