stefan's Stuff

This is pretty interesting - Fred Wilson's page is really "busy" in terms of the number of resources that have to be downloaded before the page can render, and he recently ran into difficulty when JavaScript stopped compiling in the page. The comments are good. Note - this mark tends to get placed in the upper left corner, although I've dragged the pin into the right margin. If you see this, please send feedback.

This is very interesting - Fred splits startups into three categories, let's call them successes, survivals and failures. Startup employees have no hope of getting anything out of any VC-funded startup that isn't in the success category, because the structure of the VC deal guarantees that the VC fund recoups it's investment before anybody else.

"[...] success on the Internet has depended on good ol' "nasty grassroots, viral campaigns, brass knuckling marketing," says David Stern, a venture capitalists of Clearstone Ventures, who has learned a lot from watching successful start-ups while at Idealab, and from watching MySpace."