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VentureBeat: VentureBeat downturn event: Tightening your belt isn’t enough

  • If Hell Had an Expert Panel · 1 year ago
    I was at this presentation. Here is what I heard them say:

    Levchin: Instead of laying off employees, I simply killed them and harvested their skin to soap manufacturers.

    Sieben: Flee to country without extradition. (eg. Bolivia, France, New Jersey).

    Schneider: My employees are family members who never left Carnival day jobs.

    Nirav Tolla: Does anybody have $5 for parking? Seriously. I can use the cash flow.

    Calcanis: You paid to hear MY advice? You're joking, right?
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    Ah, you attended the Bizarro World panel. I was wondering how that one went.
  • anon · 1 year ago
    Seriously, enough with the self-promoting so-called experts and their panels. If they had anything valuable to say, they'd keep it to themselves and try to capitalize on it. Let's stop treating these guys like some breed of celebrity. They are people trying to make a buck, and they are speaking within that context.
  • matt coffin · 1 year ago
    Additional Piece of Advice - Get Back to Work, Not Conferences - especially on this topic. that goes for ceos, biz dev execs, etc.
  • Roger · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    "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?
  • Truthiness · 1 year ago
    "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.
  • YCombinator I hardly Knew her! · 1 year ago
    Kinda like having a room full of Jeffrey Dahlmers tell us how best to store leftovers in the freezer.
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