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By: blog.ignesis.com » Blog Archive » “Don’t listen to anybody. Nobody knows what’s going to happen next”

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:03:02 +0000

[...] start of the financial meltdown leading to the mess we’re in now. They were pronounced at the VentureBeat Downturn Event by Max Levchin of Slide (thanks to Fred for sharing). Here is the full [...]

By: Mary Meeker does it again - her web2.0 state of the industry | FlyingChaz.com

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:01:04 +0000

[...] of enthusiasm, we still remain in a weird economical cycle – in which there is a thin line between Max Levchin’s (slide.com) approach to “listen to no-one and go for your own beliefs” or Fred Wilson (united square [...]

By: John Doerr: 11 Ways to Beat the Downturn — kushal chakrabarti | blog

John Doerr: 11 Ways to Beat the Downturn — kushal chakrabarti | blog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:39:21 +0000

[...] event with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to address the downturn. Both TechCrunch and VentureBeat provided fantastic coverage of the event, but, by far, the best 5 minutes are from this video of [...]

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:10:16 +0000

“None of those clowns are going to fund anything in the next 5 months anyway.”

Uh, I was writing about the entrepreneur panel, not the VC one …

Hypocrisy is a pretty big accusation. Can you elaborate?

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:06:37 +0000

Ah, you attended the Bizarro World panel. I was wondering how that one went.

By: YCombinator I hardly Knew her!

YCombinator I hardly Knew her! — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:48:55 +0000

Kinda like having a room full of Jeffrey Dahlmers tell us how best to store leftovers in the freezer.

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fresh wordpress installation » Conventional Wisdom Will Be Wrong — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:41:04 +0000

[...] play out exactly the way the best fund managers, VCs, and entrepreneurs think it will. I like what Max Levchin said at the venturebeat downturn event: Don’t listen to anybody. Nobody knows what’s going to happen next … Better to be contrarian [...]

By: Truthiness

Truthiness — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:22:03 +0000

“The CEO who had engineered the transaction was later fired for resume fraud (Nirav Tolia).”

http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20051208/13...

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004...

It's good to see that he's in favor of overcommunicating, but it's better to add “be honest” to that advice.

By: Knowledge From the Roundtable | KillerBlog

Knowledge From the Roundtable | KillerBlog — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:29:39 +0000

[...] VentureBeat downturn event: Tightening your belt isn’t enough [...]

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:58:06 +0000

Or you could have saved the $189 + $5 gas and 5 hours and followed their advice exactly. You should have offered equity in exchange of admission. After all none of those clowns are going to fund anything in the next 5months anyway. And whats up with the "I dont trust money markets"?! Doerr is acting like a crazed mad man. Money markets ARE now guaranteed. No more breaking the buck.

What really perplexes me is why Calcanis was there?

Really the whole thing seemed to so hypocritical.

By: » It’s like drug dealers saying drugs aren’t good for you Ask BINC : The BINC Blog: Ask BINC

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:37:06 +0000

[...] least that is what Kara Swisher of All Things Digital said at VentureBeat’s Downturn Roundtable. She was comparing drug dealers to VCs, who previously encouraged growth and spending, to now [...]

By: Crisis Counseling From Silicon Valley Veterans - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Crisis Counseling From Silicon Valley Veterans - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:35:06 +0000

[...] by VentureBeat on how to manage start-ups during the likely recession, venture capitalists and start-up founders discussed how start-ups can survive and what they learned from the last time [...]