The Case for Talking Shit on Wall Street

My friend Ben Siscovick wrote an interesting blog post today entitled Stop Shitting on Wall Street. There is way too much vehement anti-Wall Street sentiment in the startup community. Not that it is completely without merit – there are tons of valid reasons to...

The SpeakerCave Genesis

On June 1, 2010, I moved into the SpeakerCave. This wasn’t the plan A, mind you––more like plan C––but at least it was something. And definitely better than plan D, which is to say: SpeakerTent. The plan, well, plan A was to raise a bunch of money from the top...

Chris Dixon, Pissing Off/On Incumbents & VC Marketing

A friend of mine is a partner at a large VC firm. He’s an awesome dude and today we got into a debate about this tweet: .@fcollective is looking fwd to seeding great startups this summer while big VCs are on vacation spending their management fees less than a...