Venture Capital Presentation Spoof
In light of all the recent economic events, many investors and venture capital firms have been sending warnings out to their portfolio companies about the difficulties that lie ahead. They have been advising entrepreneurs about the need to conserve cash and start making money as soon as possible. This presentation has been flying around the internet: Sequoia Venture Capital Warning to CEOs and Michael Arrington has been covering the topic at TechCrunch.
Sequoia Venture Capital Warning to CEOs - Get more Business Plans
So of course it didn’t take long for some folks to start lampooning the situation. This morning I was reading Matt Marron’s blog and I saw that he had uploaded a spoof VC presentation to docstoc, and embeded it in his blog, making fun of the presentation above. I think I may have pitched a few firms like “Whiner Jerkins”.
Whiner Jerkins All Hands 10/13/08 - Free Legal Forms
The author of the slidedeck takes a shot at Seesmic which I happen to like a lot and their founder Loic Le Muir. Nonetheless, funny presentation.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
very funny. have you seen this?
http://www.ryumaou.com/hoffman/bplan.php
October 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
This one is very funny. I especially appreciated the circular graphs on how the cycles keep getting more ridiculous. I also echo a general distrust of MBAs - I do love engineers from Stanford and MIT. Good engineers from anywhere for that matter are great. I’d take 10 engineers before I hire an MBA for biz dev.