Sometimes I like back-up...and just in case some are thinking that I am anti-venture capitalist...here are some tags others have put on our vc frenemies...
useless, lazy, unqualified for even a sales job, dweeb, slacker......hmmmmmm
Well, I'm just saying...in my experience, venture capitalists are not nice people - they live "outside" the moral and values box of society. Scary!
Read this glowing story of David Hirsch, ex-google employee turned venture capitalist.
I shopped at IKEA and enjoyed a mini-show of a few college chicks who were obviously shopping for their first apartment - they were super excited about the goldmine they were finding in the as-is room (markdown department). Oh to be young and starting the journey........
Surprise, surprise....it made me think about life as an internet startup. Our life is changing quickly, we struggled with the development for so long I had almost given up hope (actually, I gave up hope many times over), and now that our site is launched the energy is shifting very fast.
A major step today - our first signed LOI, Dr.Z (hubby's new nickname) is totally stoked and celebrating the milestone....I'm still the cynical one and feel less happy (many share my view of LOI's). Either way, change is coming and I am already missing my "milk-crate lifestyle" of being a struggling startup company (I can't even believe those words came out of my brain...I must be crazy). What I'm saying is that I'm fond of the memories I have of my first apartment which was put together on a shoe-string budget and as hard as the past few years have been, we had some amazing moments and grew closer to one another as a result of our journey.
Although I'm anxious to get to the next stage of growth, I'm appreciating the journey!
Okay....further proof why we call them Vulture Capitalists!!!
Mark Lerner is a poster child for the ugly world of Venture Capitalists and the power they think they have in this world. Imagine how many young, vulnerable woman he has spread his yuckies to that have been wooed by him with his money and power!
His wife has quite a legacy now....ewwww!
When the vultures start circling the flailing company (and your man) be prepared to feel your fiercely protective, scorned, loyal side rear it's head!
It's one thing to be totally disappointed in the direction your hubby's vision has taken you but it's a completely different thing all together when the vultures start beating up on him - I never felt more like standing on the rooftop (of our rental home) and belting out some sappy southern song about "standin' by your man"!!
And it's no coincidence that the vultures start circling at precisely the right time (when all hope of getting funded is gone) and they dangle that carrot right in front of you so that it's impossible to just say no to their offer, which inevitably will go something like this: "0% 0f nothing is nothing...so really the deal I'm offering is so great for you, really, I'm doing you a huge favor here....blah, blah, blah".
There's an old saying - "if you want to dance with the devil, you have to pay the fiddler".......
