Archive for March, 2009
Note To Timothy Geithner: Do Startups & Venture Capitalists Really Need More Regulation?
Mr. Geithner: In the late 1990′s, in response to the obvious financial shenanigans of large companies like Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, Washington handed us the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I have no idea how effective Sarbanes has been at reducing fraud (it obviously did not prevent our current economic malaise), but I do know one thing. Sarbox created [...]
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While it may seem hard to believe in such a dire hiring environment, one of our investments, LiveOps, has excess “demand” for workers. That’s right — excess demand for workers. For those of you that don’t know, LiveOps is a very, very cool company. Their core technology is a SAAS “contact center in cloud.” Just [...]
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