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The most important thing to do with any article is to Google the name of the reporter. Pui Wing Tam's only MO is writing poorly conceived hit pieces on Valley
by temphn 15y ago
The most important thing to do with any article is to Google the name of the reporter.
Pui Wing Tam's only MO is writing poorly conceived hit pieces on Valley companies and personalities.
Here she is literally going through Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's garbage:
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2006/11/17/valleywag-takes-aim-at-benioff/ http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2006/11/17/valleywag-takes-...
Here she is beating up on every CEO who's not Zuckerberg or Chad Hurley (title tag: "Struggling CEOs"):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119741476977621971.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119741476977621971.html
And here she is saying "Venture Capitalists head for the door" -- in 2009, no less!:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124416376153487535.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124416376153487535.html
The woman is just a hack who writes the same article over and over again.
- nostromo 15y agoAnother tactic is to look at the sources quoted in the article. In the WSJ article yesterday, the primary source was Naval from AngelList -- who has a better view of early stage financing than anyone I can think of. Unless she distorted or fabricated his quotes, I think there may be something to the story.
- cienrak 15y agoNaval sees one small slice of a very large market. Given the bleak macro economic picture, funding has probably fallen on Angel List, where a lot of doctors, lawyers, and non techie investors look for deals. But the overall picture for early stage funding, as concrete data shows, did not get any grimmer over the last two quarters.