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Re: Bleary Eyed Investors

fredwilson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:39:03 -0000

nice!
i went to a nascar race in charlotte north carolina a few years back

we were in the infield

it was the loudest thing i've ever experienced

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markslater — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:30:28 -0000

Loudon NH - Nascar - Father-in-law works for Nascar so press passes for the brit! if you have not been to one of these - it is surely reccomended - it is the greatest single slice of americana in one place at one time.

Commentator yesterday was explaining that tony stewart was having a poblem with his right rear tyre but that the pit crew were not telling him - and the commentator told tony to 'check twitter buddie!'

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fredwilson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:23:02 -0000

wow. where is that from?

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markslater — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:09:50 -0000

http://www.facebook.com/pho...

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fredwilson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:59:07 -0000

that link is not working for me unfortunately

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markslater — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:54:57 -0000

congrats - i was getting my slice of americana here yesterday
http://www.facebook.com/pho...

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Guest — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:50:30 -0000

Completely understood. It was sent in the vein of sharing information that might have been of personal interest. Even in the neural network of social media we can only be in so many places at once.

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:19:09 -0000

Thanks!

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:24:02 -0000

That is an interesting riff. I'm not going to talk publicly about that particular situation though

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:16:02 -0000

i'm going to the game mark. i fully expect to get our clock cleaned. but i will be rooting hard for the jets anyway.

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:15:15 -0000

or do less deals. bringing on partners is not a scalable solution either. at some point you stop being the firm you were.

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:15:03 -0000

Two years seems reasonable. I'll join you in that timeline keenan

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:11:05 -0000

Great post!

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:09:01 -0000

that is good advice

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:08:02 -0000

What's even more funny about that ad is my wife and I just bought a new mattress for our bedroom. We looked at that mattress but went for another brand

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:02:02 -0000

Thanks Yule. I'll check out Greenspun's stuff

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fredwilson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:58:05 -0000

Its a good question charlie, particularly since I don't believe that VC is a scalable business

And even though I plead guilty to working at an unsustainable pace, I do make a lot of time for the things that make life special.

Right now is a time of opportunity for me and our firm. So I feel like I have to go for it. But clearly I can't do this way for the long haul

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Dave Hendricks — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:25:29 -0000

Fred - you don't sound like you have much (enough) time, but in case you are serious you can learn from the master yourself: http://www.edwardtufte.com/...

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Yule Heibel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:37:49 -0000

Sounds like a great recipe for managing the visual load, ShanaC - thx!

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WA — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:59:36 -0000

Venture Beat Article just came in on my feed:
http://digital.venturebeat....
Interesting banter on valuations...

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Keenan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:40:14 -0000

LOL!

What's it been 10 months? I knew expectations were high, but WOW!
I'll at least give him 2 years before I start judging. Just as I gave
Bush. I'm less concerned with the name and party than I am with the
effort and results.

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Dave Pinsen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:29:35 -0000

As long as this is the change you believed in.

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ShanaC — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:22:18 -0000

;) I'm a young cheeky one, aren't I. I could say that the great ones all write, but actually, I don't know. I can tell you that language is limiting, which is why I have sat down for months straight and drawn every day, and why I am suddenly so interested in all things code, even though right now it is scary. Writing is a good way to just start out the sketching process, and to calm some anzieties, and work out some thought processes. I guess that's why I am suddenly deciding to crowdsource what to do with the next year of my life. Less about the crowdsourcing, more about thinking through the issues in a calm manner through a written mockup.

It's usually writing-drawing-coding-object-experience. Just something I've observed. Not just me, who'se observed this either. It's why I've been told to write by many people, the first person being an art teacher who thought I was having problems expressing myself during critiques (and those are brutal). Unless you disapprove of my torrents? ;)

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Keenan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:03:02 -0000

It's always harder to clean up the dominoes than it is to know them
down.

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Dave Pinsen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:55:02 -0000

I think he actually got plenty of sleep. How much sleep is Obama getting? He seems to be continuing a lot of Bush's policies (on Iraq, Gitmo, the Patriot Act, the financial bailouts, etc.).