venturecapital

This is a cop-out.

The measure of who you are is what you do with what you have.

Pinata ended up in the same place, just had to take a different path because I didn't have the status symbols.

Revenue + hot market will always open the same doors as the status symbols.

If you don't have the status symbols, you need the revenue and market.

Everyone has ideas, what are you bringing with them?

wave makers harder to find than wave chasers

VCs lost their way and don't actually want to fund interesting things

they just want returns, DPI, TVPI etc. so they can have mgmt fees