Finally, a VC Firm With The Balls To Tell It Like It Is

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35 points·paulsb··10 comments

Ah, now that I didn't think of. When stock prices go down, companies can no longer make purchases based off stock exchanging. So startup purchasing will go down as markets reduce to more sane levels, meaning that gambling investors will find something new to put their money in, and all your built to flip startups will leave a lot of people flipping burgers.

I guess it's time to start building features for solar panels, but that's where the gamblers are going to be heading towards.

Not a good idea to take stock as payment when it's about to plummet anyway.

Unless you know that it's inherently valuable... oh wait most of it is worth less than it was after the dot-com bubble burst

Doesn't really matter. For one, you have no way to predict whether or not it's about to plumment. And for another, you can (and, as a general rule, should) hedge any time you get stock from an acquisition, options, etc. Just buy a bunch of puts and you're covered in the event of a down slide.

This hit here several days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=331077

It's so funny, it deserves to be put up twice!

geez give matt a little link love or at least a mention

You know, I'm finding that thing all over the net and almost nowhere is there a link, other than the one in the presentation. Such is the hazard of hosting it via docstoc or any other youtube like service.

On the other hand, I made it just for fun, and it costs me nothing for people to see it, so I'd rather it get around. And it does have a link in it.

Good use of the word "turd" to describe Seesmic

Found slide 13 particularly interesting!

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