“Everybody who works at a startup company is a samurai and a jedi by default.”
Funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis, playing to the crowd’s D&D and sci-fi fetishes in explaining how to start a company, This Week in Startups, 11 February 2010
Archive for February 22nd, 2010
THE FARCE IS STRONG IN THIS ONE
February 22, 2010A SUCKER IS PLUGGED IN EVERY MINUTE
February 22, 2010“I like to say that the new energy technologies could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”
Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr, recycling his ’90s-era dotcom maxims for his latest startup scheme, Bloom Energy, 60 Minutes, 18 February 2010
A BUSINESS MODEL FOR DINOSAURS
February 22, 2010“You could raise a tiny amount of money and be hatched by atomic eggs. In fact, I would argue that the vast majority of truly great companies have done it that way.”
Venture capitalist Mike Maples, Jr., on why he invests in so-called “thunder lizards,” VentureBeat, 18 February 2010
