Stewart Alsop's sausagefest

No one quite understood why venture capitalist Stewart Alsop was handing out salamis at Alsop Louie Partners' annual party at Tres Agaves Tuesday night. Power investors in the crowd: Ann Winblad and Ron Conway. The boring business gossip: Sequoia's funereal presentation to entrepreneurs on the coming financial apocalypse. The more interesting personal gossip: Alsop is dating Robin Wolaner, the founder of Parenting magazine — see, everyone's a founder of something in the Valley! — and the author of CEO confessional Naked in the Boardroom. (Since I first wrote this post, Wolaner emailed me to mention that she's also, much more recently, the founder of TeeBeeDee, a social networking website.) More »

Alsop Louie Partners attempts to look hip, fails

Is it just me, or do venture capitalists Stewart Alsop and Gilman Louie of Alsop Louie Partners, pictured here in matching leather jackets, remind anyone else of the leather-suit-buying wannabe rock stars Bret and Jemaine from HBO's "Flight of the Conchords"?