Disqus - Latest Comments for markslater

Re: The Weekly Email

markslater — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:38:52 -0000

David cancel of drift wrote this exact post on linked in yesterday.

Re: The Amazon Backlash

markslater — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:11:58 -0000

absolutely insane on so many levels. Selfishly, i hope boston now steps up big-time and goes after a piece of this - its the perfect anchor tennant to combat our brain drain.....

But seriously - NYC? wtf????? if stories are true....AOC just went from interesting to watch to....dangerously ignorant.

Re: The Amazon Backlash

markslater — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:07:38 -0000

nail. head. this is insane that they are letting AMZN leave IMHO

Re: The Amazon Backlash

markslater — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:03:41 -0000

they are really shit VCs - they do horrible diligence, allow all sorts of skews in to their investment decisions, Allow their investment $ to get in the wrong hands, base quality of teams on quantity of donations, have completely poor outcomes mostly and us poor LPs are non the wiser.

Re: The Amazon Backlash

markslater — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:01:32 -0000

totally agree - cant believe they let this one get away.

Here in boston one of our bigger problems is our talent drain - we are the number 1 education city in the world and would benefit massively from having them as an anchor tennant to match up with our pool. There is talk her now that the city is going to make a move.....

iMHO its very short cited of the politicians to allow AMZN to back out.

Look at seattle. The AMZN is a thriving 15 block city that has totally changed the landscape.

I'm gonna hazard a guess and say that AMZN alum have gone on to build many many successful startups in seattle and likely employee north of 50K people in aggregate.

urban airship, redfin, pro.com, are all alum founded - and there are untold others startups that have benefited from and employ alum in seattle.

AMZN locating in any city would have a series of network effects on the area for years to come. Lost completely on the politicians.

Re: Rethinking AVC

markslater — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:14:58 -0000

All relative jlm.

I overheard my 7 year olds hockey coach in the huddle the other day...

No losing.....only winning and learning kids.....

I was blown away. This is so simple for them and yet profound.

Best to you sir.

Re: Rethinking AVC

markslater — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:24:47 -0000

So i have stopped commenting here now for some time but you got me to log in to my disqus account and check a few stats!!!

here we go for a bit of fun!

- i started following AVC on September 21 2007.
- i first started commenting a month later.
- I have commented 2423 times.
- i received 1126 upvotes
- i have 159 followers (huh!)

these are not intended to be vanity stats - i'm not completely sure on what they all mean and dont pay attention to them. My point is.....

Your daily contribution has caused me to build a 14 year long feed of thoughts and interactions nearly all of which have directly contributed to my career.

In that span i have started 3 companies, 1 win, 1 loss, 3rd just getting going....raised over $18MM in VC money (i say this as i drew huge help from your community as i went through that process both times). I fail to believe that i am alone in this regard.

My highlights from memory were:

- ranting with you on how utterly crap twitter was and that your investment would be a zero!
- disagreeing with JLM on just about everything ;)
- Meeting Arnold, William and i am sure others....

Finally - i'm a reader now, not a commenter - but you have inspired me to consider daily blogging my new startup journey - i just might do that!

Either way - thanks thanks thanks for the years.....and a quick WAVE to all of you geriatric AVC followers who i have not conversed with in too long.......

Re: Setting Up A New Phone

markslater — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:20:31 -0000

The facial Log-in on X might sound like nothing but when you use it you realize how amazing it is. Same with the airpods......sound boring but the user experience is amazing.

Re: Losing In Double Overtime

markslater — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:01:15 -0000

fake news - B & B laughed at it today on the radio..this is journalism at its worst

Re: Losing In Double Overtime

markslater — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:53:25 -0000

never known an athlete more hated. He's been a model citizen his whole career here in boston. I get the belichick thing - totally see how he comes off that way.

Re: Losing In Double Overtime

markslater — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:58:23 -0000

we've been blessed up in boston - 18 years in on brady belichick - that's my entire american football supporting life....

Re: Being Direct

markslater — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:30:35 -0000

wow i am liking a JLM comment ;)

Re: Fun Friday: Jet Lag

markslater — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:16:36 -0000

Equipment.

The new dreamliners make a big difference. i try not to ever travel on the older planes

Re: Guns And Mental Health

markslater — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:21:14 -0000

i was quietly encouraged by trumps demeanor today. these are truly trying times. I was trying to highlight the absurdity of some of our country's positions - in the face of the glaringly obvious problem we have here with guns.

Re: Guns And Mental Health

markslater — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:45:06 -0000

i wonder if he now expands the travel ban.

Re: Guns And Mental Health

markslater — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:44:39 -0000

No words.

Cue the next round of second amendment apologists that will work to deflect this.

Sickening sickening sickening. This is not the america i want for my children.

Re: A Nightmare

markslater — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:56:12 -0000

How about this wildly radical fact. you are coming on here screaming rule of law, and obama was the devil and all this other unempathetic and frankly to most - frightening stuff....and i merely did the board a favor by letting the new ones know that you were a birth certificate shill.

as they read your stuff - this should be known. Its context - and important context at that.

Re: A Nightmare

markslater — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:43:59 -0000

thats right - you were on here asking for a passport check a few years back. my bad i forgot.

Re: A Nightmare

markslater — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:20:34 -0000

Your ending with the statement "obama created this mess" bollox is a close second to sessions coming out and sniggering at the whole thing....

Re: A Nightmare

markslater — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:11:51 -0000

Not hyperbolic at all. Your response confirms such. A bot could literally generate your responses at this stage.

Re: A Nightmare

markslater — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:01:52 -0000

To think that this president wouldn't do something like this is like not watching anything for the last 6 months. He will take the most racist, elitist, divisive, immoral issue and amplify it - and then laugh at those "snowflakes" who scream foul.

we are in a post truth, nothing is off limits world.

Re: Multi-Sig Wallets

markslater — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:45:11 -0000

ha! and never hire an irish nanny unless you want paul oakenfold on at 2am.

I think we are in that range too.

Re: Oreo

markslater — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:41:12 -0000

until 11. there is all this talk around the AR stack coming in 11 that is much harder to replicate for android given device disparity.

Not being an apple fan boy just wondering whether the "promise of AR" which has largely gone un-promised, might finally break out with apple's version of it.

Re: Multi-Sig Wallets

markslater — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:46:12 -0000

20% of 3 comma club ;)

Re: Multi-Sig Wallets

markslater — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:44:57 -0000

i totally agree - they are taking a rent seeking position to a decentralized outcome.....labels to music