(any resemblance to persons living or dead strictly coincidental, etc. etc.)

http://diegobasch.com/exploiting-silicon-valley

The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem: 
>
> Joe Founder comes to Silicon Valley with a laptop full of dreams, but no 
> money. Joe wants to maximize his chances of making a few million dollars in 
> five years. What should Joe do? 
>
> First off, let's acknowledge once again that Silicon Valley is a sea of 
> conflicts of interest. You have the Sand Hill Strip, where "reputable" 
> firms like "Palo Alto Grand Investments" or "Burlingamio Ventures" want Joe 
> to invest his body and soul, swing for the fences, hit the ball into the 
> San Francisco Bay and become the next Sergei Zuckerberg. It sounds awesome; 
> the problem is that the chances of this are slim. Joe does not like. 
> 1/100000 odds of making billions of dollars is unappealing. 
>
> Still, Joe needs money to make money. He has to pretend to want what VCs 
> want. He learns to spew lines such as "I want to change the world by 
> helping people connect faster. My company is to GooBook what the telegraph 
> was to horses. A quantum leap in virality technology."
>
...
>

Entertaining stuff.

Geoff.
 

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