InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The data consistently confirms that: (i) venture capitalists are typically not adventuresome, and (ii) most startups lack the three intoxicating factors which cause venture capitalists to pull out their checkbooks. A clear trend over the past 15-years is that many Silicon Valley venture capitalists enjoy investing within driving distance.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2018

Lesson: Creating something from nothing is intoxicating and contagious. In a pivotal scene from his book Start-up , Jerry Kaplan describes how he mesmerized a group of jaded Kleiner Perkins VCs by throwing his leather portfolio onto a conference table and dramatically describing it as a handheld device that could digitize handwriting.

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JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. get out and raise money now because when markets change they change on a dime and capital completely dries.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In He was stuck on capital raising. I used to sit on the board of a company (for which I DID NOT invest) with a very smart and very likable CEO. They are intoxicating, complex, insightful and tell a great story.

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