Archive for the ‘vc’ Category

valuations are for egos

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Jeremy Liew started quite a discussion in the tech vc blogosphere with his post Asymetric risk and the danger of too high a valuation which was endorsed by Josh Koppelman and bashed by my fellow silicon alley alum Jason Calacanis and indirectly criticized by (and what might have influenced Jeremy's post) Marc Andreesen. As someone who ...

it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s super-vc!

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Noted New York VC Fred Wilson's comment on his non-involvement with any of the purported machinations going on with wallstrip, the online video show, raises a great point.  VC's are not super-men/women or the masters of the universe that perhaps the public might perceive.  In almost every case, the credit ...