I... I have to reply to this ridiculous article. First, i want to point this guy out. This guy is called Don Rainey and he works for Grotech Ventures http://www

I... I have to reply to this ridiculous article. First, i want to point this guy out. This guy is called Don Rainey and he works for Grotech Ventures http://www.grotech.com/ http://www.grotech.com/ which like to show how many CEOs they have. Straight up, grotech ventures doesn't know how to properly render websites, see here, http://www.procrastinatorstangent.com/rd/hacker_news/grotech.jpg http://www.procrastinatorstangent.com/rd/hacker_news/grotech... so tweak that, Don. no - but seriously, I came here to write something important, and here it is: I don't know if Don is managing _right now_, but judging by this article, i'm going to assume he is (even though this is probably a list of things not to say when doing a pitch to him). Now Don has been managing peeps like most us at HN for 30 years. That's crazy. can you imagine doing something for 30 years? I can barely imagine doing the same something for 5, but he's done this for 30. That means he has experience. Now, I don't know Don, but today, on this cool sunday, Don has summed up 30 years of experience to me into 8 rude complaints. He has pointed out flaws he has seen over and over again without pointing out any solutions or constructive criticisms or proper examples to look up to. And that to me is like a child complaining. dev - "it's modular, so we ca-" don - "no." what? what kind of conversation is _that_? can you not think of 1 modular application ever built? By the comments here, some people clearly have. Off the top of my head, here is one modular project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrlicht_Engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrlicht_Engine and here is one of its modules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGRE3D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGRE3D, here are some of ITS modules: http://www.ogre3d.org/addonforums/ http://www.ogre3d.org/addonforums/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGUI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGUI Now these and other examples versus his points could be argued as exceptions, and from Don's point of view, as a VC, then yeah - probably few and far apart. But what does that say about what he is talking about? what does that say about VC pitching? and promise offerings? and the fucking nerve racking experience that must be to have to face off a Negative Nancy like him for money. Don Rainey comes off as the kind of guy who "knows when it's not right" but has no direction into how to achieve something that is satisfactory even for himself. http://clientsfromhell.net/post/697519797/me-lets-talk-about-color-first-do-you-have-any http://clientsfromhell.net/post/697519797/me-lets-talk-about... http://clientsfromhell.net/post/742771834/me-could-you-please-provide-us-with-details-of http://clientsfromhell.net/post/742771834/me-could-you-pleas... http://clientsfromhell.net/post/789388118/while-developing-an-affiliate-website-for-one-of http://clientsfromhell.net/post/789388118/while-developing-a...