A Venture Capitalist passes away peacefully, and...

[raganwald]

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/04/venture-capitalist-passes-away.html

[raganwald]

I rarely write anything with a specific audience in mind, but I confess I was looking through my "logs" and noticed how much traffic I have been getting lately from news.ycombinator.com.

This is my way of saying, "thanks!" I hope you enjoy it.

[mattjaynes]

Great writing! I guess there are VC's like that. Very entertaining read ;)

Fortunately there are others that seem quite a bit better. For instance, Greg McAdoo's (of Sequoia) talk at Startup School was pretty impressive - a good look into how one of the best VC firms really works.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ycombinator-StartupSchool/~3/106570487/Startup_School_2007-Greg_McAdoo.mp3

[raganwald → mattjaynes]

Just because they're like that in Founder Hell doesn't mean they're like that on Sand Hill Road.

You could choose to read the joke as meaning that "They're only like that in Hell" ;-)

[BitGeek → raganwald]

Companies succeed despite VC funding, not because of it.

VCs are people with more moeny than brains who are certain the situation is reversed!

[mattjaynes → raganwald]

He he, good point ;) Once again, great writing!

[ecuzzillo]

Fifth paragraph: if their is a kind of afterlife

should be

if there is a kind of afterlife

Boy, do I hate that kind of mistake. It's nearly as bad as s/you're/your/.

[raganwald → ecuzzillo]

BTW, I upmodded you for helping me improve, thank you.

I see a few others may have felt that the observation was not valuable to other YCombo readers.

Please do not be discouraged from supplying authors with constructive criticism. If you care about karma, you can always use email or the comments on blog posts themselves.

Thanks again.

[raganwald → ecuzzillo]

Many eyes win in blogging as well as in OSS :-)

[mattculbreth]

Hey that's good! I like the VP of Sales being forced on people.

Thanks for all of the good posts.