Don't Be a Dude Yamaha: A Gripping Story of Life and Death in Silicon Valley

Author's just jaded. Seriously, would you invest into their company? http://www.avanoo.com/ I looked at it for about 20 sec and couldn't figure out what it is.

Not a huge fan of Guy's but I'm with him on this one.

The earlier version of the story was previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=23907

http://valleywag.com/tech/silicon-valley-tool/guy-kawasaki-231106.php

A concern here, as I see it, is whether we can expect consistent professional behavior in these meetings. After all, they are very much between individuals, and at least the investor side has to face a wide variety of ventures.

GK was right not to invest in someone so unscrupulous as to write a blog post afterward, spinning the encounter to make him look bad.

At first when I read the article, it seemed like Dude (I hadn't yet made the GK connection) was being ignorant and rude. Then after checking out the site and re-reading the article, I realized I would have asked the same questions, though not as rudely.

I wonder what Apple product he was comparing the interface to? It certainly does not look like any Apple interface I have seen (that said, I am a PC user).

LOL. I didn't get the "Dude Yamaha" name right away, and so when I clicked on "avanoo", I said, "Holy crap, it's truemors! Guy Kawasaki's going to be pissed!"

Sure enough he was.

I have no idea as to how truthful this post is, I'm just curious what others think of this behaviour. To me it just sounds like the chap they were pitching to was having a bad day (since VCs are human after all).

Well, like Dude says, there's no bad publicity..