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Sorry but I'm not clear on the point of this. Is it that VC-backed companies cannot pursue smaller markets and so there are nice size opportunities left for bootstrapped startups?

Inspired by this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644798 - where everyone is saying how bad TC is (don't disagree). But I'd like to know what folks read now. And pleas…

This is definitely a hot area, but unfortunately, it is also becoming the thing everyone wants to be attached to. And so the term is becoming increasingly meaningless. It's 2012s "…

You're spot on. If you make it about "what's in it for the reader or prospective customer", their receptivity and reaction to it will be much better. That is in stark contrast to "…

Not to take the discussion totally off-topic, but if you are a portfolio company of the Crunch Fund, is this type of thing by Arrington a net positive for the portfolio co? I suppo…

"You don't know better." If an entrepreneur is that helpless, paying-to-pitch is the least of their problems.

How is anyone being exploited? You have a choice to pitch or not. It's not blackmail. It may be foolish to pitch at these events, but as far as I know, nobody is being forced into …

Uh oh -- The downvoting has started. Feel free to do that but please explain where I'm missing the mark. Thanks. ----- I'm really not sure why entrepreneurs who I'd suspect believe…

Cuban's points were a bit all over the place, but if we're talking about wealth creation of the F you money type, taking some personal/career risk often is required. Whether that's…

He's recommending if you have a $100k in savings, you should invest in startup tech companies and not public equities which is somewhere between ridiculous and stupid to dangerous.…

Absolutely. But it seemed the original TC article was trying to suggest which program was best for startups. So if trying to figure out which program is better for general partners…

Ha. Good point. But I think with women at least (basing this observation on my wife/sisters), there is an element of sharing, i.e. "check out my new haircut" or "like my new haircu…

I like Haircue. When my wife gets a haircut she likes, she always wishes she has pics of it right then so she can show the hairdresser the next time (esp if she needs to use someon…

Not sure I understand your point. I'm asking for median valuations as averages often distort reality. Plus, "median series A returned a loss" - huh? Can you clarify? If 5 companies…

PG - What is the median valuation of those fundraising rounds? Averages are not a great metric because the few big valuation winners (Dropbox, Airbnb) skew the average big time and…

TS also something similar. All TechStars companies can get $100k. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/...

While I appreciate the attempt, this was pretty shoddy data analysis. First, Crunchbase's data is pretty bad. I saw a spreadsheet floated around some time ago that had a lot more Y…

I agree 100% actually. I was annoyed with myself for taking the bait and commenting on this at all cuz it's an utter waste of time. That said, I thought Paul Carr's effort to torpe…

Read TC a lot less recently since they want to be the news vs. breaking it...