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Re: Importance of the Adoption Curve

Dave Howell — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:58:59 -0000

It is fortunate that a software company can optimize Demand Curve Utilitization by positioning in multiple points on the Adoption Curve.

Re: Paul Graham on Startups in Bad Economies

Dave Howell — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01:18 -0000

Depends what dimension you're measuring against, and what your needs are. In general, you want to buy during the bust and sell in the boom. So if you don't need to borrow, then a recession is a great time to start. Launching a venture is a better use of your funds during a downturn than, say, mutual funds.

When the economy is slow, let the incumbents claw themselves to the bone for market share while you're building your team, infrastructure, and tech foundation. Then when things pick up, you'll be ready to capitalize on the trend, while your competition is still licking its wounds and assuaging bitter morale.

Re: An Overview of the Venture Capital Process

buy wow gold — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:51:35 -0000

Well if venture capitalists (VC) have started advertising , does this mean that business is good or that their reputations are down.For every successful entrepreneur that is VC backed, there are two or three that got duped into mortgaging too much in an unfair deal. Venture Capitalists take a bet with other people’s money. Entrepreneurs take a bet with their lives and their reputations.The VC industry needs to be well regulated before it ends up like the hedge funds.

Re: Andy Weissman: Is Early Stage Investing That Risky?

Sam Huleatt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:29:11 -0000

Great comments guys! It's fun to see a simple Tweet result in such terrific thoughts

Re: Andy Weissman: Is Early Stage Investing That Risky?

aweissman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:35:51 -0000

great comments - totally agree - different asset classes, meant to be accessed by different investors, with different skill sets to evaluate companies. Early stage VC by definition is also a small size (aggregate $$) - it should be relative to other asset classes. But we know from early 00s the effect of a longer liquidity cycle.= . . .

Re: Andy Weissman: Is Early Stage Investing That Risky?

jdrive — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:37:32 -0000

This week, certainly. That said, early-stage investing is essentially similar to holding a long-term, near-zero liquidity bond (ie fund) with no reliable mark-to-market mechanism, and few coupon opportunities (certainly this year). What's the over-under on that? Since it is typically un-levered, it can appear more attractive in this type of environment. Still, if you had to liquidate it tomorrow (a la $LEH), you wouldn't like the price.

The good news for early-stage companies - particularly in a location like NY - is the volume of talent that is about to become available. The bad news is the longer purchasing cycle-time (for those things that aren't 'free'), increased financing / exit uncertainty, and a deepening parsimonious sensibility already permeating the consumer market.

By the way, let's hope early-stage investing is NOT perceived, over time, as having a lower risk profile than traditionally safe, high dividend-paying bets (like financial institutions), or the flood of capital will drown us all, and we will find ourselves lost in a world of creative destruction (like Twitter? If four of five clones is good, 20 must be better, right? :))

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Re: How to Post New Stuff

Sam Huleatt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:43:08 -0000

Okay I got that issue taken care of...however for LeveragingIdeas.com
I installed the new update and for some reason the post now shows up
twice when you click "comments": example:
http://www.leveragingideas....

Any idea what might be causing that? I deleted the old Disqus entirely
from Wordpress and was sure to install the script for LevergaingIdeas
not StartupTweet

Thanks! I swear I'll quit bugging you guys soon!

Sam

Re: How to Post New Stuff

David Reinke — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:21:33 -0000

.....having trouble logging in to post resources