Comments on: Dare to be Greater

By: Risk Averse East Coast VCs? Never! at Bilgistic

Risk Averse East Coast VCs? Never! at Bilgistic — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:17:57 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:49:55 +0000

You offer very little data. Most of the article is a subjective piece
on why the West coast creates more billion dollar companies than the
East coast.

-What is the count of billion dollar (I’m assuming you mean past twelve
months revenue rather than inflated market cap, especially of non-public
entities) companies created West vrs. East coast?

-What is the concentration of VCs within 50 or so miles of Silicon
Valley (let’s say San Jose as the epicenter) vrs. Boston?

-What is the population of university students to draw on with those
50 miles (Stanford/Berkeley etc. vrs. Harvard/MIT etc.)

-Can these numbers be crunched per capita?

Is it simply the law of larger numbers? Maybe none of the data backs
up a conclusion and maybe its an attitude thing?

One thing for sure, you start with a conclusion which seems to me to
become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

By: Private Equity HUB - peHUB First Read

Private Equity HUB - peHUB First Read — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:31:52 +0000

[...] Mike Greeley of IDG Ventures enters the East Coast/West Coast “great company” debate. [...]

By: Stanton Kaye

Stanton Kaye — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:26:06 +0000

Thank you for trying to articulate this difficult Art….

Regards,
for Infratab Inc.
Stanton Kaye,President

Glad to see you are at IDG still….
How’s “Ninotchka”? –your Swedish Komissar?

By: Ian Finley

Ian Finley — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:37:03 +0000

Great vision, but will it resonate with the scions of New England VC and with the entrepreneurs that fashion their businesses to please them?