Entrepreneurs Learned their Lesson from the Bubble Days

Ron Conway and Paul Graham share some positive and optimistic information with the TechCrunch Founder, Michael Arrington and the audience during the Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto,  on Friday. Unfortunately, they both mostly addressed the outcomes for investors, who always have liquidation preferences and other protections that put them ahead of founders.

Conway who said, has invested on over 500 startups, expects about one-third of them fail, one-third get investors their money back, and one-third bring a 2x to Google-x return which btw, Conway invested in Google and PayPal early on. But that’s not the case. Conway noticed that during the Internet Bubble in 1997 to 2001 — the failure rate was about 77 percent. Read more of this post

HP Vs Vagina over Palm – HP Wins


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Elias Shams
I guess Vagina is not as powerful as I thought it would be.

Referring to one of my latest post about the Vagina effect on Palm, HP just announced that it would acquire smartphone maker Palm, in a deal valued at $1.2 billion.

Under the terms, HP will pay about $5.70 per share for Palm, whose stock price closed at $4.64 on Tuesday. read more…

Vagina Effect Hits Palm


by
Elias Shams
We witnessed how Vagina brought down the most powerful men in the world including our beloved former president, Bill Clinton, the former NY Governor, Elliot Spitzer , the former golf champ, Tiger Woods, and more to be brought down :-) We, men are not the only thing Vagina can bring down. She is even bringing down once known as the coolest gadget and the only smartphone on the planet, Palm.

Palm Smartphone

Just yesterday, I blogged about a recent survey of women dating men based on their smartphones. Those men with Palm were so at the bottom of the list to be desirable by chicks :-( which might explain why HTC also rejected them as their strong potential acquirer.

Poor old Palm has been desperately looking for a buyer for a while. Even after going cap in hand to all the world’s major handset makers, the firm still can’t seem to find a solid buyer. read more…

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