Comments on: Founders Fund raises new fund, aims for more VC disruption

By: What is Series FF stock? : Startup Company Lawyer

What is Series FF stock? : Startup Company Lawyer — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:42:34 +0000

[...] of the Founders Fund raising a $220 million fund in December 2007. See additional coverage from Venture Beat, TechCrunch and the Mercury [...]

By: Nudity-friendly site Zivity gets $7 million to compete with MySpace, sort of » VentureBeat

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:41:17 +0000

[...] for the industry. With this investment, San Francisco’s Founders Fund continues to assert its maverick status among [...]

By: Alan Cheslow » Facebook buying Plaxo?

Alan Cheslow » Facebook buying Plaxo? — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:17:13 +0000

[...] Imagine, as well, more data from the web coming into Facebook’s news feeds. In an interview, Parker recently reiterated the vision of Facebook being a social operating system. Maybe Facebook’s news feed will start incorporating data from other sites. Note: Parker currently works at The Founders Fund, which recently raised a large fund for more, mostly-web investments last month (our coverage of the funding here). [...]

By: VentureBeat » Facebook buying Plaxo?

VentureBeat » Facebook buying Plaxo? — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:16:05 +0000

[...] Imagine, as well, more data from the web coming into Facebook’s news feeds. Parker recently reiterated the vision of Facebook being a social operating system to me. Maybe Facebook’s news feed will start incorporating data from other sites. Note: Parker currently works at The Founders Fund, which recently raised a large fund for more, mostly-web investments last month (our coverage of the funding here). [...]

By: R Cobo

R Cobo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:50:19 +0000

What is the best way to submit a Business Concept for consideration?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:49:34 +0000

Some people just don’t realize the difference between being good or just being lucky. This fund will need a continual bubble to be successful.

By: ArgleBargle

ArgleBargle — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:02:42 +0000

The idea that “Early Silicon Valley venture capitalists were entrepreneurs who made their money and wanted to invest in the next generation” is a fiction. The founders of many of the great early venture firms – IVP, TVI, Sutter Hill, Mayfield, Venrock, Greylock – were not entrepreneurs with experience starting tech companies. As for the idea that investment bankers are arrivistes in the world of venture capitalists, Arthur Rock was an investment banker.

Furthermore, there are many successful VCs today who were not entrepreneurs – Bob Kagle, Geoff Yang, Dave Marquardt, Steve Jurvetson, Brook Byers, Mike Moritz, etc… – while the list of good entrepreneurs who proved to be mediocre investors would probably be quite long.

There’s no one formula for success.