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He tries to come off as some sort of "angel from the hood". I wouldn't be surprised to hear him say "yo boyyyyy, I be funding companiez." His money's as green
by mattmaroon 16y ago
He tries to come off as some sort of "angel from the hood". I wouldn't be surprised to hear him say "yo boyyyyy, I be funding companiez."
His money's as green as the next guy's though.
- zackattack 16y agoIf Birdman got into angel investing, I would take his money.
- physcab 16y agoThen I'm sure founders wouldn't have a problem taking the next guys money instead.
- Alex3917 16y agoHonestly the biggest problem with Silicon Valley is that 90% of the startups aren't trying to build real businesses, they're just trying to build something that will impress Mike Arrington to compensate for the fact that they had no friends in high school or whatever. At least Dave actually understands the mechanics of leadgen, SEO, margins, and the rest of what makes a business work unlike the rest of the hacks in the valley.
- webwright 16y agoCan't downvote this enough. Really? All 90% of people who quit their job to found a startup want to do is impress Arrington? They want the same thing that any founder wants-- a combination of happy users, business success, and an exit (though there's more emphasis on the exit for a lot of Valley folks). Save your venom for people who don't have the guts to start a company. Or better yet, save your venom entirely. The internet doesn't need any more.
- MartinCron 16y agoSave your venom entirely. The internet doesn't need any more That's one of the best things I've read in a long time.
- Alex3917 16y ago"They want the same thing that any founder wants-- a combination of happy users, business success, and an exit." I'm sure the founders think that's what they want, but their actions say otherwise. Anyway I didn't mean it to be venomous, I was just trying to defend Dave.
- zackattack 16y agoWould you provide us five specific examples of how their actions say otherwise? Since 90% of startups exhibit this kind of behavior, it should be easy to come up with five.
- Alex3917 16y agoIf I were to start calling out individual companies I'd only do it on my blog under my real name, not as a pseudonymous blog comment. As it stands though I wouldn't feel comfortable blogging this only because it's not my idea, I stole it from someone else.
- crystalis 16y agoSo you're just impersonating Alex Krupp?
- bl4k 16y agoDave has been watching too much of The Wire