My goal with this blog

I write about relevant changes in the way that people use the web and how startups are built to provide services and products for this ever changing wonderful thing we still know as "the web." As a former entrepreneur turned early-stage investor, my greatest hope is for this to be useful to other folks that are like me in the hopes that they can avoid some of the mistakes I've made.

Enough already with the motherhood and Apple pie advice

Ever since Sequoia decided to get ahead on the rest of the Monday morning quarterbacks with their RIP Good Times presentation, every Tom, Dick, and Harry angel investor and me-too venture fund has decided to get in on the advice giving about how startups have to conserve cash and get serious about business models.

Come on people, this is like great platitudes from Captain Obvious and friends. Startups are businesses after all which I think means that they should be worried about this no matter what the times are like!

If you want to see a really funny version of the "eat fruit, save money, and exercise regularly" schpiel, go check out what Whiner Jenkins has to say. I have to admit to laughing out loud over this one:


Whiner Jerkins All Hands 10/13/08 - Get more Business Plans