A VC - Latest Comments in The AVC Reader Census

Re: The AVC Reader Census

chris dixon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:34 -0000

Hey Sally, this is Chris Dixon from Hunch. Happy to try to track this down. Can you hunchmail me (chris) or just let me know the URL of your blog. The stats should be at hunch.com/bloggers/<your url="">/
thx!

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:56:30 -0000

I will alert hunch for you

Re: The AVC Reader Census

maverickny — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:55:05 -0000

Loved this idea so thought I would try it out on my own blog which has a very different population of people. It sounded really easy so I created the widget for the blog, posted it and got over 100 people to click on the link and participate today (no mean feat for a small niche blog).

It's returning big fat zeros though; did you have to do anything other than add the widget code?

Re: The AVC Reader Census

kidmercury — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:20:44 -0000

it's worth it boss! i recommend vegetarianism to everyone, i think at least for me it makes me feel more mentally alert and healthier. i prefer to focus my doom and gloom on 9/11 but if you want some bad news on this subject netflix has some great documentaries on the meat manufacturing process here in the US.

although i should note i eat seafood every few months, which some of my hardcore vegetarian friends diss me for and say wipes away all my vegetarian street cred. damn.

Re: The AVC Reader Census

rosshill — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:28:01 -0000

You've inspired me to game my readers too :) http://www.rosshill.com.au/...

Re: The AVC Reader Census

Prokofy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:01:49 -0000

Well, get pissed, Fred, but you're simply wrong.
I didn't call you a liar.
I said *I didn't believe what you were saying*.
and I don't. Throwing a fit and telling me you're pissed doesn't persuade me any further.
I need investigative journalism on your surprising claims that people who give everything away make a living. It really is an untested theory, realized by only a tiny handful of people who happen to make their living on the lecture circuit (Doctorow, Andersen) and I'd like to see how much truth there is for everybody else, even in this subset of people who are rock stars able to sign to a label.

It's very important to prove your claims by journalism, not by propaganda, and back them up by reason, not by telling people you are pissed.

Re: The AVC Reader Census

COMRADITY — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:27:43 -0000

What a relief. I am weird. Which is quite normal here. Old, Wants to give back, Drive a sports car (manual, by the way), oh and weirdest distinction (drum roll) a woman who wears make-up ;p

Re: The AVC Reader Census

Mike McGrath — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:02:09 -0000

I wonder if VC's could use this to gauge entrepreneurial potential?

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:49:33 -0000

You call me a liar, I get pissed

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:48:00 -0000

That's what I like about hunch. Its game like. Most surveys suck

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:47:26 -0000

Thank you!

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:44:53 -0000

I may join you kid

If I'm allowed to eat a steak once a quarter

Re: The AVC Reader Census

awaldstein — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:43:48 -0000

Perfect!

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:40:25 -0000

When washington sent adams to london and replaced him with jefferson in paris, adam's first letter to jefferson was 'send me the forty cases of claret'

Nuff said

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:32:42 -0000

I know. That's why I skipped that question myself. That's how I roll, sadly

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:00:23 -0000

Can your bring along some other carnivorous women? We need more of you here

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:59:08 -0000

Wow

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:58:54 -0000

Unfortunately

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:57:21 -0000

Let's see if they make it actionable and if they do, whether it is useful

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:40:33 -0000

Your opinion of this community will never be the same!

Re: The AVC Reader Census

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:38:45 -0000

LOL

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im2b_dl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:15:13 -0000

I should say not so much how much more successful they would be...but how much quicker more efficiently and solidly would they have been adopted... and how much more secure would they be had they been structured for a population larger than ones based of the norms and values of such a small demographic...and I also think the Urban vs. suburban vs. rural numbers... speak volumes to cultural soundness and usefulness

Re: The AVC Reader Census

im2b_dl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:08:46 -0000

Fred fyi - you got the highlight wrong on hunch users and twitter use. As far as the male stuff goes...that is the industry demographic it seems for VC/Investment/technology overlap isn't it. Seems unless you change the field (and you might as well might try to increase NFL viewership of women ...tough)... or you have to open up your discussion outside the subject of technological architecture as the basis of investment...or technological architecture and an interest with a larger women's demographic).

It kind of cuts to what I say all the time.. sure things like Twitter and Facebook (which interestingly I see facebook much more the women's medium and twitter mens' ..surely for the long form and short form versions of their communication)... but the question you should see coming out of those men and women numbers in your survey is ...facebook and twitter's success' were created in a higher educated, specific male dominated culture... how much more successful would they have been had they taken in information, ideas and views that were not "inside baseball" created. I think your blog numbers show that perhaps the "math of success" might be more successful if the technology and investments weren't so overwhlemingly tunnel visioned on the inside baseball crowd...
Twitter facebook other technologies all created by a population as culturally diverse as it seems is limited by it's ladder and power structures...along with it's social hierarchy.

imho

Re: The AVC Reader Census

samstewartnz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:27:05 -0000

Interesting to see a snapshot of the AVC community. The only thing I would say to Hunch is that Oceania =/= Australian.

Re: The AVC Reader Census

Prokofy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:34:41 -0000

92% Male (n=573)
8% Female (n=49)

Fred, you need an affirmative action plan at this point.

Um, I guess what you do is pick a mommy-blog topic and then tweet it.

or -- just a thought! -- you don't tell one of your tiny percentage of female readers that you don't understand why they stop by here at all if they don't believe you lol.