Like does anyone read this stuff?
“[The] business of seed investing, and frankly, early-stage entrepreneurship, is so much about getting good information. And almost all of that information, unfortunately, is not published.”
OK cool, thanks. By the way also that's also true of all investing, in anything, ever throughout history. By definition good investment information is unique information, that's the nature of competitive markets.
“Ideas …matter, just not in the narrow sense in which startup ideas are popularly defined. Good startup ideas are well developed, multi-year plans that contemplate many possible paths according to how the world changes.”
Ideas matter. More thoughtful, well developed ideas matter more. Who knew? Another thing that matters is warm clothing, it's really handy.
“What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.”
In ten years everybody will be spending time with their family, apparently.
This era of technology, it seems to be the core theme is about moving beyond bits to atoms.
Thank god, the whole sub-etha thing has been getting pretty tired.
And so on. This article is almost completely devoid of actual analysis or observation, it reads like a fugue on someone's stream of consciousness ramblings