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Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

does he not have an extra 2-3 minutes to capitalize and think out more coherent analogies? The same way, I fail to realize how people don't understand that he writes in that style not because he lacks a few extra minutes but because that is a style and persona he's built over time.

How is it that someone as sharp as McClure and his posse claim him to be cannot realize that no matter how well-crafted the the persona may be, if it personifies douchebag then maybe you need to dial it back a bit.

if it personifies douchebag

It may personify douchebag to you and 82,482 other irrelevant strangers on the internet. More important, though, is what it personifies to the entrepreneurs looking to raise money. What you see as douche, many see as no-bs straightalking angel investor(whether accurate or not is irrelavant).

At the end of the day, his blog is a sales pitch to entrepreneurs. And from all that I can see, he has done pretty well. ie. he's scored many deals where the entrepreneurs see him as the no-bs guy; I'm not aware of any where an entrepreneur blatantly turned him down due to his writing style. Most that claim they would never raise money from him have never raised money and never will.

Conclusion: it's his style, it works for him and his goals, so he continues.

Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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post #8

As an outsider to Silicon Valley, it really seems like it's full of drama and ego wars. Seeing grown men and women argue like children really makes me happy I resisted the urge to move out there.

I just moved here and I think it's awesome. There are so many tech meetups, startup founders, hackathons, and jobs (if your startup doesn't work out) that it's worth it. I still only interact with the drama by reading it on the internet and I get a lot of benefits from living here.

Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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By the way, can this meeting be connected to Angel List (http://angel.co/) in any way?

As far as I understand, Angel List is an effort to create a centralized curated marketplace for angel investing. Seems very similar to AngelGate. Even if these are unrelated, I wonder, whether Angel List can be viewed as something against competition.

On the other hand, Angel List simplifies angel fundrising a lot and therefore is beneficial for entrepreneurs.

Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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Two reactions: (1) Ron Conway is a man of great integrity. (2) It's astonishing and fascinating that the world's most prolific angel investor apparently doesn't know how to spell "entrepreneur". But he sure has helped a lot of them, and that's what really matters.

The President of the United States managed to miss the fact that the word derives from french.

Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit Perfect example.

To be fair that was posted by Shonfeld and not Arrington as can be seen in the by line. http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-over-u... I suppose you could hold him responsible for not preventing it from being published, but this wasn't directly one of his posts.

Sorry, I guess I was thinking of this reply: http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ but that would have been to the post I linked to above.

Back: http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/5 and forth: http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/23/another-blanket-denial-by-l...

Since Arrington wrote two of the three articles, I guess I just figured he wrote the original too.

Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's crazy that even with Ron telling Dave to stop embarrassing the tech community with his unprofessional classless writing - he still did it! That in itself is truly classless

I believe this email was written after Dave posted his defense of the meetup.

Yes, but Dave's accidental tweet to the whole world came after Ron's email, didn't it? That's what really makes Dave look like a webtard - Ron told Dave not to "cause silicon valley more embarrassment with your unprofessional classless writings", and then Dave sent out a tweet doing exactly that!

Re: Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

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post #43

I'm having trouble believing this is not a hoax. This doesn't feel real to me. The entire thing feels like it is staged by Arrington and McClure.

It's going to feel A LOT more surreal in the coming days I suspect. A lot of people are going to go into serious a$$-covering mode to distance themselves from these people as quickly as possible. It's not just a matter of reputation, it's a matter of landing on the preferred side of the law.

Ron's email is great. I do wonder why he didn't write it before this whole thing broke. I'm guessing it would have been even tougher.

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