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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by ada1981 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:34PM (#6370608)
The ol' "Damaging Admission".
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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by hnnnnng on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:46PM (#6370662)
Theres no way to win, is there?

One doesn't state that he/she has probably made mistakes == person is implying he's never given bad advice.

One does state that he/she has probably made mistakes == its the "ol' Damning Admission" strategy

Do you even think?

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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by dagw on Thursday September 12, 2013 @03:16AM (#6372547)
Theres no way to win, is there?

"The only way to win is not to play" is always a time honored strategy.

What you say during your PR pitch is almost irrelevant (unless you fuck up catastrophically). The nature, location and the very fact that you're doing a PR pitch speaks much much louder than the content of your pitch.

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Re:Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups by yuhong on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @08:58PM (#6371286)
Yea, it is not the old legacy PR age anymore.
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