Michael Gracie

Nobody ventured to guess where the p0ker related spam feed I found came from, and I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t want to be associated in any way with this site either. Nonetheless, I’ll tell you: I found it on Topix.net under the subject “Spyware.” How the heck did that leak through? More spammy sites fighting for attention.
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I have often wondered what would happen when the two mentalities collided. On one hand you have the VCs, with rolodexes a mile deep, including direct lines to the best bankers. Any of the Sand Hill Road crowd will do. On the other, you have the scrappy entrepreneurial types, very creative and driven, and often with a little cashola of their own, garnered from previous deals. Guys like Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines, come to mind. Then you throw Google’s rejection of the status quo into the mix, with their dutch auction IPO, and you are left with an interesting dynamic.

Is the venture funded deal becoming a thing of the past? I wonder.
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