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Things VCs Never Say

It’s tough being a venture capitalist these days.  Exits are practically non-existent, fund raising is an impossible task, and true breakthrough ideas are in very short supply.  So the folks at ExpertCEO decided to put together a little tongue-in-cheek Slideshare deck about things that VC’s would never admit.

I enjoy humor as much as anyone else but kicking the VC class while their down seems a bit rough for me.  I’ve worked with dozens of VCs and private equity firms over the past decade and many of these points do resonate.  On the flip side I know that innovation is what will lead to the next great wave of technology and that VCs and other investors will be critical catalysts in making those technologies successful.  I’d prefer to keep the entire VC class on my side versus leaving some history on the Internet about how stupid I think they might be.


Find your way and donate a little code would ya?

I’ve always been perplexed by traffic jams and this piece provides a credible overview of how to fix it.  Of course meaningful mass transit would help too. Thanks to wikit.org.

Product Launches Don’t need to suck…

Prior to leaving for my latest business trip, I had the opportunity to preview David Daniels‘s eBoook, “Is your product launch doomed?” and I was fairly thankful for that opportunity.  David’s ebook was fairly timely and provided a needed reality check for the effort which I was engaged in, a product launch.  The piece provides 10 key items for consideration during a launch – all of which are valid.  My most recent launch did so well since the launch focused on ensured that item 10 from david’s book – the team was paramount.    The initial launch roadshow which just wrapped up garnered reasonable international press, initial interest and customer excitement.  So basically – the mechanics and the emotional parts went very well, so now on to the crazy profit and revenue part.  So that’s kept me just a little busy this summer, but I look forward to posting more over the coming months.   Considerably more, wow have I learned a bunch in the last 90 days.

Looks like David has been busy too – here is a presentation I found which David did at ProductCamp Austin, it appears that his launch plan for the eBook included a roadshow of sorts as well.  Without the sound track and if you haven’t read the eBook you should still be able to get most of the parts, but I would read the long version too.