mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 06 2008 | paul graham, vc, startups, investing, incubation
Paul Graham says there are not enough investors chasing the following type of deal:
Quoted: There are companies that will give $20k to a startup that has nothing more than the founders, and there are companies that will give $2 million to a startup that's already taking off, but there aren't enough investors who will give $200k to a startup that seems very promising but still has some things to figure out. This territory is occupied mostly by individual angel investors—people like Andy Bechtolsheim, who gave Google $100k when they seemed promising but still had some things to figure out. I like angels, but there just aren't enough of them, and investing is for most of them a part time job.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2007 | microsoft, google, paul graham, technology
This guy rebuts the Paul Graham post from earlier today. Don definitely drinks some of the Microsoft Kool-Aid but still makes some valid points.
Quoted: Just to put $4 Billion of growth in perspective, Yahoo's entire revenue last year was $6.4B, and Adobe had revenues of $2.57B. Think about Microsoft growing almost an entire Yahoo in one year, or almost two Adobe's. The numbers are staggering.
On the other hand, I think the following is the wrong attitude from someone at Microsoft to have and honestly scares me a bit as a Microsoft shareholder. This may be the case now, but I can see Google and Apple encroaching on Microsoft's territory.
Quoted: Holding up Apple and Google as the Microsoft killers is curious. Microsoft is a software company. Apple is a hardware company and Google does consumer web search. I have a lot of respect for Apple and Google, but Microsoft killers? I don't think so.
ShareViewed: 19 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 08 2007 | microsoft, paul graham, technology, web 2.0, google
Wow..quite a passionate article from Paul Graham who normally sticks to offering advice for startups.
Quoted: I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in our insular little "Web 2.0" bubble. The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is old news.
- kennykamada - Jun 10 2008
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