Comments on: Charles River Ventures Hires That FuckedCompany Guy

By: Ad-Man

Ad-Man — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:46:41 +0000

I hope Phil can coax some real venture entrepreneurial spirit out of CRV, which has lately gone into foxhole defensive mode, even after securing a reasonably large new fund. Their quickstart program is a farce, they look at new deals only from insiders who have participated in liquidity events at other venture firms (because there have not been enough at CRV to poll from that group) and those deals that do come in – even from friends of the firm – receive a cursory look and a summary “looks interesting, but probably not a big enough business opportunity for us to pursue” which means that the nice person writing the response did not even read the plan or exec summary. They hire failed entrepreneurs who are unimaginative and defensively negative, and should take the “ventures” name off of their door. They are part of the malaise in venture, and should admit that they are basically series-c investors looking for cheap pricing for so-called series-a and seed deals. Don’t expect their participation in series-be because they will fail to understand the underlying value in the deal, and will expect series-a upside, or worse, a re-cap. Their name partners are good guys, especially Bill Tai, so it is baffling that he is unable to put together a better team. Makes one wonder when the vcs’s can’t put an excellent team together, and yet they insist on entrepreneurs putting together winning teams from the start… So with all this, we have great hopes for Phil that he can call Bull%%% on the CRV brats and either push them to perform like real venture guys, or get them out of venture and back to a safe corporate job where inaction and doing nothing is a way to advance, or at least to avoid accountability…. Good luck Phil.
CRV folks, you should prepare to be accountable and auditable, as you have a new guy with no problem calling-out BS and double-speak.
Maybe that’s what the LPs need too.
Ad-Man

By: Prail

Prail — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:09:36 +0000

Kaplan is the real deall. Hit me up old Man, lets take some of these ideas to the next level and expand the scope.

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[...] FuckedCompany blogger, AdBrite founder is now a VC [TechCrunch] [...]

By: Andrew Badera

Andrew Badera — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:28 +0000

Think the new job will cover some laser hair removal? That man’s a beast.

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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:38:48 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:45:23 +0000

Right, because those sites are just bulging with top-tier developers who make $150K/year but still find time to do a 50 hour project for $99.

By: led panel

led panel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:48:57 +0000

really ?

By: jack pears

jack pears — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:57:14 +0000

THE FC MESSAGE BOARD STILL REMAINS! ITS RUN BY SOME OF THE DEMENTED SOULS WHO USED TO POST THERE. http://www.latestfilings.com

By: .

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:13:57 +0000

Pup is a first class failure. I am much more successful.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:51:33 +0000

why do you have little respect for them?

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:50:49 +0000

he is no gurbaksh chahal for sure

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:20:11 +0000

fuckedcompany is fucked

By: Kevin Leversee

Kevin Leversee — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:20:37 +0000

This is great! I loved FUCKEDCOMPANY, I remember when I was working for NSYE MDA Thomas Kinkade I got called into the VP office for looking at such a questionable URL.

I replied this was part of my job, to find out the status of the web and quoted the Cluetrain. God Bless those innovative and frontier days.

I even bought a FuckedCompany Hoodie.

Ah Selah.

Kev

By: spotrunhelp

spotrunhelp — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:37:37 +0000

this guy is part entrepreneur and part clown. which one will show up at Charles River, a firm I have little respect for…

By: ivan

ivan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:23:01 +0000

man, i feel old …

“for those of you too young to remember fuckedcompany … ”

thanks for making me laugh!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:04:04 +0000

I tried out Pud’s “fast140″ game, http://fast140.com and scored 756 WPM, for the phrase:

Join Mousavi, Khatami and Karoubi tomorrow at 4pm from Enghelab Sq. to Azadi Sq. in Tehran for a crucial green protest

But, now, my “Scorecard” is messed up.

Rank: 0 – Faster than 100% of players!
Your overall rank: #0
You are faster than 100% of players!

I wonder if flirt140 works just as fast for dating. Win.

Michael

P.S. Pud still rocks.

By: Wayne Lambright

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:58:00 +0000

Pud rocks! The entrepreneurial James Bond.

By: Erbo

Erbo — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:11:24 +0000

Oh hell yes. I have his book, and it’s chock full of his particular breed of irreverent humor.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:03:39 +0000

Just quick FYI to author:

The flirt140 link goes to a parked domain (and not Pud’s Flirt on Twitter page).

Kaplan has been churning out quite a few neat ideas and that kind of tinkering usually leads to at least one idea that will actually spark. (Like AdBrite, for example.)

Didn’t he also release http://www.spottt.com link-exchange? I recall he originally posted that concept on his personal blog — sometime last year.

Keep up the great articles, TC!

Michael

P.S. Pud kicks ass on drums. SEE: YouTube

By: Pub

Pub — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:49:19 +0000

Didn’t he get demoted from Adbrite completely as he’s no longer on the executive page. His tweets say something like waking up earlier than noon to “act more like business people”. He brought his drum kit into work at Adbrite.

Who would let this guy screw up their company?

By: FindaCompany.com

FindaCompany.com — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:16:11 +0000

business social/search/twitter?

LocalHotSpot.com – getting warmer

By: Gary Pifer

Gary Pifer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:02:51 +0000

Got my second Computer back in Aug 1999, First one was a Commodore VIC 20, Too complex for me.
Traded it in for a shotgun. Ran across, Pud, Even wrote to him once, and he answered. Those were
the days. Thanks for the fun reading.

By: i lold

i lold — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:18:43 +0000

Lol, I thought it was http://retro.f2bbs.com

By: sean percival

sean percival — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:54:46 +0000

I may get $80 hair cuts, but I would never bleach.