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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by dalke on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:39PM (#5816549)
According to Wikipedia's article: "In 2011, Arrington founded a venture capital firm called CrunchFund along with M.G. Siegler and Patrick Gallaghar."

It seems to me that being a partner at a venture capital firm makes someone a VC. Why do you think otherwise?

BTW, from CNN: "CrunchFund itself has largely flown-under the radar. It doesn't even have a website."

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by nknighthb on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:49PM (#5816598)
Heh, "under the radar" is an interesting way of looking at it.

They might not make a lot of noise now, but CrunchFund was the trigger for several days of utter and very public chaos at AOL/TechCrunch when it launched, leading to Arrington being fired because of AOL's own choices and disclaimer of journalistic ethics, but not really, but oh maybe really, but no, but yes, but now he's back, and AOL still doesn't know WTF they're doing...

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by hkmurakami on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:46PM (#5816583)
and iirc m.g.Siegler is now at Google ventures
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