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This sounds a little too cynical, and possibly autobiographical. I have counterexamples. So, who's right?

• logicallee 9y ago
  if you have counterexamples then you are right and I am wrong. I shot you an email asking for details of your counterexamples and will write in a reply if in my opinion they falsify my claim. (Or you can include them here if they're public.) I'm open to the idea that I was wrong.
  • logicallee 9y ago
    As of 8 hours later I did not receive your mail. If the email in your profile is not correct you can mail me at mine. I am scientific and made a strong claim above: if you have a plurality of counterexamples I would like to update my comment stating I was wrong. So far I have just a statement from you that you know of counterexamples. I do not. Thank you.
    • logicallee 9y ago
      Update: I received an example via email that included approximately 40 investors passing and not being interested, until the seed round began to be put together at which point it snowballed. I would say this strengthens my conviction that the levers listed in the article are not how VC's make their decisions: because those listed levers did not change to cause the change in investor decision.