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I suppose now it becomes more of a test of whether a prominent blogger's post is enough to prompt these firms to look for his submission and respond. Certainly

by gr366 17y ago

I suppose now it becomes more of a test of whether a prominent blogger's post is enough to prompt these firms to look for his submission and respond. Certainly not representative of the average person. And the fact that the companies aren't named puts no pressure on them to follow through. But then this begs the question, why do the VC firms' web sites offer the ability to submit in the first place? How about an Amazon Mechanical Turk task to have people screen the proposals for them? Have the Turkers write a bullet point summary and give a thumbs up or down.

Brushfire 17y ago
Good question about why they offer it, if they dont use it or look at it. I think its just for propriety. The mechanical turk thing, however, im not sure about. Understanding a good idea and good team is not something everyone can do before the idea and business is out there. If anyone could do it, anyone with money would be a successful VC. Ideally, this is what Associates at VC firms are for, but web-based sourcing is sort of the last resort.