Comments on: The secret algorithm one VC firm uses to pick entrepreneurs

By: Anthony Decena

Anthony Decena — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:24:08 +0000

So if you’re up at 6am talking with people back east, there is a 50-50 chance that your revenue is on the high side of a million? That has to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

By: GS

GS — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:55:18 +0000

The author broke his own rule: (from his twitter) ‘never go full douchebag.’

By: Bijal Ray

Bijal Ray — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:07:10 +0000

Wish I had not read it now….

By: Andrew Shannon

Andrew Shannon — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:59:47 +0000

Of the 59 comments, it seems like 90% are negative – which surprises me. Bringing quantifiable metrics into the VC equation isn’t necessarily bad, this anonymous guy didn’t say these were the exclusive basis for his decisions… just data points his firm uses. Besides, evaluating an entrepreneur’s street smarts, extrapolating what they read, and finding complementary teams isn’t novel – he’s just describing the fund’s methodology for doing so. I’ll admit, the cell phone is fishy at best – but seriously… not bad enough for the flack being dished.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:13:09 +0000

Lame observations, social metric investing gets Tea Cup drippy returns. The fellow ought to go back to school and learn more about VALUE and not the age of one’s phone number, nor the school one went to, as claimed investment litmus test criteria.

By: rattlesnakerich

rattlesnakerich — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:45:07 +0000

but the second mouse gets the cheese

By: enriquewoll

enriquewoll — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:48:01 +0000

I wonder how Alexander Graham Bell or Thomas Edison ever managed to get off the ground without a cell phone or without an electric lamp? Did either of these geniuses go to university, or college? Had they had either tool, or graduated from the best universities, would they have done so? Would they have succeeded in today’s world? Are modern electronic tools absolutely essential to entrepreneurship today? Isn’t the key to entrepreneurship, innovation, and isn’t it founded on invention, and isn’t it, in turn, founded on a vision of what is not, but could be? Again, what about Jobs and Gates, to what extent did they succeed because of Angels or VCs, having dropped out of college and begun their business adventures in garages? How much energy and time should an entrepreneur invest in these helpers?

By: Jason Shurb

Jason Shurb — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:51:49 +0000

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By: Jason Shurb

Jason Shurb — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:51:10 +0000

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By: davidjones022

davidjones022 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:08:18 +0000

What algorithm was used by Wall Street? hmmm……..Sounds like these people are the same people that need a decision tree in order to decide if they should go to the restroom.