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Only if your margins are 100%.
If your margins are 10% then cutting out that employee is just as good as increasing revenues by $1 million.
Food for thought before any new hire.
pretty juvenile IMO. great bridge burning though. nailed that part.
I give VCs and startup founders more credit than you do. If I met someone who blackballed Matt on the basis of a satire like this, I would wonder why they were being so insecure and/or vindictive. That being said, hang on a moment (waits 60s). Funny, no calls from VCs. I wonder if it was this: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/04/venture-capitalist-passe... Seriously, the people I know (probably many fewer than everyo…
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I give VCs and startup founders more credit than you do. If I met someone who blackballed Matt on the basis of a satire like this, I would wonder why they were being so insecure and/or vindictive. That being said, hang on a moment (waits 60s). Funny, no calls from VCs. I wonder if it was this: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/04/venture-capitalist-passe... Seriously, the people I know (probably many fewer than everyo…
matt's post pisses on people who hold a lot of clout within the industry in which he operates for no reason other than to get traffic to his blog. this seems shortsighted to me. maybe i'm wrong. let alone the fact that sequoia is the firm that put out the deck while kleiner is the only VC that has openly eschewed web 2.0 investments. they have been investing in energy and mobile while others put money into the seesmi…
I will say this, though: According to my personal values, if he is wronging people, it ought to be wrong regardless of whether he is wronging the rich and powerful or wronging the poor and helpless.
Which is not to say that he wouldn't be burning bridges, but if I were to feel that he was wrong to publish this, I would feel that way on the basis of deciding that he was being mean or petty or spiteful or hurtful.
I guess I just don't see the people he is satirizing as perceiving themselves as being hurt by this deck. It could be a question of timing: I might feel differently about the exact same post if it came at a time when VC's were laying analysts off and we were treated to pictures of employees carrying their personal effects to their cars.
Cutting out an employee with $100k in salary is just as good as increasing revenues by $100k. Only if your margins are 100%. If your margins are 10% then cutting out that employee is just as good as increasing revenues by $1 million. Food for thought before any new hire.
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matt's post pisses on people who hold a lot of clout within the industry in which he operates for no reason other than to get traffic to his blog. this seems shortsighted to me. maybe i'm wrong. let alone the fact that sequoia is the firm that put out the deck while kleiner is the only VC that has openly eschewed web 2.0 investments. they have been investing in energy and mobile while others put money into the seesmi…
Let's agree to disagree. You read a post where he pisses on people, I read a satire where he "takes the mick out of people." You perceive that his motivation is linkbaiting/trolling, it didn't occur to me to even consider his motivation one way or the other. I will say this, though: According to my personal values, if he is wronging people, it ought to be wrong regardless of whether he is wronging the rich and powerf…
Hilarious. Someone should do one about how the Web 2.0 denizens would go about with their life in a Depression. Tweeting from the government food lines, posting pictures of the day's crappy dished-out gruel on Flickr, posting Facebook updates of their hunger pangs and the number of pounds lost...quite a few possibilities.
Cutting out an employee with $100k in salary is just as good as increasing revenues by $100k. Only if your margins are 100%. If your margins are 10% then cutting out that employee is just as good as increasing revenues by $1 million. Food for thought before any new hire.
Cutting out a _worthless_ employee with $100k in salary is just as good as blah blah blah.
If the employee is not worth more than they cost the company you should not be hiring them recession or not.
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Let's agree to disagree. You read a post where he pisses on people, I read a satire where he "takes the mick out of people." You perceive that his motivation is linkbaiting/trolling, it didn't occur to me to even consider his motivation one way or the other. I will say this, though: According to my personal values, if he is wronging people, it ought to be wrong regardless of whether he is wronging the rich and powerf…
sounds good. to be clear, i don't think his piss is actually having an impact and hurting anyone's feelings. more like he's pissing in the same spot where he's planning to sit and eat lunch.
Hopefully, Matt will turn their attention to the slide in his presentation that talks about net revenues and EBDIC, then say smoothly, "Of course I wasn't talking about you guys, you obviously invest in quality companies with actual business models."
Such a conversation would probably go well.
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matt's post pisses on people who hold a lot of clout within the industry in which he operates for no reason other than to get traffic to his blog. this seems shortsighted to me. maybe i'm wrong. let alone the fact that sequoia is the firm that put out the deck while kleiner is the only VC that has openly eschewed web 2.0 investments. they have been investing in energy and mobile while others put money into the seesmi…
Let's agree to disagree. You read a post where he pisses on people, I read a satire where he "takes the mick out of people." You perceive that his motivation is linkbaiting/trolling, it didn't occur to me to even consider his motivation one way or the other. I will say this, though: According to my personal values, if he is wronging people, it ought to be wrong regardless of whether he is wronging the rich and powerf…
In my limited experience with VCs and angels, they almost all do.