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BusinessWeek scrapes Techmeme for its latest list

Paul Boutin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Loic Le Meur! Gabe Rivera! Joi Ito! Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. BusinessWeek.com's latest 25 Most Influential People on the Web is a mashup of billionaire powerbrokers with a randomized handful of those folks you run into at that same little tech conference that happens under a different name every month. I'm guessing they left out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to create buzz. If you don't want to click through 27 pageviews on BusinessWeek's site, here's the entire list in alphabetical order:

Steve Ballmer
Mitchell Baker
Jeff Bezos
Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt
Jeff Clavier
Paul Graham
Arianna Huffington
Joi Ito
Steve Jobs
Jonathan Kaplan
Loic Le Meur
Jack Ma
Matt Mullenweg
Rupert Murdoch
Craig Newmark
Gabe Rivera
Kevin Rose
Sheryl Sandberg
Jon Stewart
Peter Thiel
Maria Thomas
Anssi Vanjoki
Jimmy Wales
Evan Williams
Jerry Yang

VC Jeff Clavier: Founders, don't make money, take ours!

Nicholas Carlson — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

Palo Alto-based venture capitalist Jeff Clavier wants startup founders to stop trying to make money. Why? Because when founders start pulling in around $300,000 a month, they start to think they don't need VC. Which is correct. And bad for business. So here's a refresher on what Clavier and other VCs would prefer they do.

Ignore revenue.
Run out of cash.
Ask VC for cash in exchange for large handfuls of equity.
Ignore revenue more. Run out of cash, again.
Shovel equity in VC's direction, asking for more cash.
Repeat steps 1 through 5.
Accept VC-picked board members.
Stop ignoring revenue.
Sell to VC's friends at Google.
Don't let door hit you on the way out.

The moneymen at The Lobby

Megan McCarthy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:33:15 EDT

The venture capitalists spotted at this week's Lobby conference in Hawaii are not, we've noted, the Sand Hill Road dwellers who inflated bubbles past or present. No sign of anyone from Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins. So who is enjoying the tropical sun? Well, conference host and August Capital partner David Hornik, of course. Also photographed on the scene: Greylock's David Sze, SoftTech's Jeff Clavier, Foundation Capital's Mike Brown, Panorama Capital's Mike Jung, and Bay Partner's Eric Chin. Hats off to First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman, who is using his entrepreneurial skills to cash in during the scavenger hunt. (Photo by: bradley23)

Buzzword Babylon at OnHollywood

ndouglas — Thu, 04 May 2006 19:17:43 EDT

OnHollywood, the conference held by the Tony Perkins's AlwaysOn Network that's just now wrapping up, shows the signs of a good and bad event. The good: A decent Flickr pool. The bad: A cluster on Tech Memeorandum. But the Flickr stream proves this was a missable event, or at least required a Web 2.0 Kool-Aid apéritif.

Most of you should just turn away right now.

Yes, that's Tom Green crawling from his hole and, Coke bottle in hand, blinking at the largest audience he's had in years. "I used to be big," thinks Tom as he prepares to speak. "I used to be a star. Eating roadkill, filming classics like Stealing Harvard. Ah, the good old days of classy gigs..."

AOL blogging exec Jason Calacanis says something smug.

More coverage after the jump.

VC Jeff Clavier stops the conversation: "Wait, I really need to trip to some slow jams right now."

Valley flack Renee Blodgett couldn't attend, but she kindly sent a life-size cardboard cutout in her stead.

"Clearly, the reversal of the publishing paradigm forces a reanalysis of the wisdom of crowds vis-a-vis the niche market, and if we monetize...you're sleeping while standing, aren't you."

For hints of what actually went on (or at least a spin other than sour grapes), read:
Tony Perkins's insight: The 13-30 demographic is worth watching. Who knew? Tony Perkins opens the show [Down the Avenue]
Hollywood didn't tell Stowe Boyd anything new, but at least they're "clueful." OnHollywood: The Suits Are Clueful [/Message]
A VP from EMI says the industry's done suing and is now "monetizing" the Net. Good to hear that EMI is almost up to date. (According to calculations, they're now up to 1998.) Is the Web the new Hollywood? [ZDNet]
If the Web is the new Hollywood, why was Hollywood so bad at the web? A sketchy wifi setup hurt livebloggers and demoers. OnHollywood [Marketing Begins At Home]

One last blind item: Which attendee ended up passed out poolside last night?

Photos: Set: OnHollywood [Dan Farber on Flickr, CC]

Another damn update

ndouglas — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:22:42 EST

Valleywag, in a vain attempt at reaching Wall-Street-Journal levels of inaccuracy, ran a non-item last week. Jeff Clavier, one of the SDForum speakers so unfairly accused of non-disclosure, sets me straight:

Sorry for the non-story here but
1) Steve Gillmor is not a root.net investor or advisor and
2) I have invited Mike in his TechCrunch capacity at the very last minute in replacement of Dick Costolo from FeedBurner who got grounded in Chicago by a snow storm the morning of the session. With just a few hours to find a suitable speaker, I could either get only 3 panelists, or add Mike who graciously agreed to join us. Edgeio had nothing to do with this.

Right, time to update the old disclosure table. After the jump, a full run-down of Valley bloggers, their special interests, and whether they're telling.

Earlier: Disclosure, kids: SDForum [Valleywag]
And: Wall Street Journal's fake blogger scandal [Valleywag]

The blogger	The blog	The make-out partner	The morning-after call
Jeff Clavier	Software Only	SoftTechVC	So his VC firm can't disclose everyone it works with. You just gotta trust him. (Heh. Trust a VC. I know, just try it for fun.)
Michael Arrington	TechCrunch	Edgeio	He name-dropped Edgeio when he mentioned it.
Steve Gillmor	ZDNet	Not root.net	Whomever he's in bed with, it's not root.net, despite my earlier report.
Dan Gillmor	Bayosphere	Fon	Smacked by the WSJ for not disclosing. Was totally disclosing.
Dave Winer	Scripting News	Edgeio	Whatever you have against Dave, you can't say he doesn't disclose.
Doc Searls	Doc Searls Weblog	Jabber, Ping, Socialtext, Spikesource, Technorati	Puts disclosures in his bio.
Robert Scoble	Scobleizer	Microsoft	Um, did you NOT know that he worked for Microsoft? Which of the "Here's a post about what we're doing at Microsoft" posts did not make this clear?

Disclosure, kids: SDForum

ndouglas — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:40:03 EST

An attendee of SDForum's monthly Search SIG says some folks aren't disclosing when they give talks.

Jeff Clavier (VC blogger and Edgeio investor), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch writer and Edgeio ~~advisor~~ co-founder), and Steve Gillmor (ZDNet writer and root.net investor) all mentioned their respective investments — but not that, well, they invested in them.

Could just be a misunderstanding; could be jealousy from a guy who didn't get to plug his own investments. But kids, kids, you've got to remind folks when you're plugging your own company — we tend to forget who runs what when there are so many dot-coms running around.

Search SIG [SDForum]