Cheating
Don’t do it. I know sometimes it’s tempting, especially when mothers are going around cheating on board games with their own children just because the mother — not the child — is bored. Michelle Hastings admits she’s sometimes cheated to …
Month: March 2007
Just grok it
Every once in a while I notice when someone writes something that makes me think they grok the ethos of Credit Card VC. I’m not saying they are foolish enough to actually use credit cards to finance a business, but …
Here’s some good news out of DC
How often do we get to say that? The Wall St. Journal has a story out this morning that Congress is considering a tax break for Angel Investors. The idea, as reported, is that investors would get to write off …
Spiritual Ancestors of Credit Card VC
I stumbled across Founders at Work, and was immediately entranced. Guy Kawasaki had the same reaction, and quoted some of the best bits, including this: All the best things I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and …
The Pitch for Angel investment
This is a forum for those who don’t want VC. If you are funding your own startup yourself, be it with credit cards or whatever, you are in a sense your own Angel investor. Last week I attended an event …
Buzz Kill
Credit Card VC has not exactly caught on as the buzz word of the moment, but that’s OK with me. It shouldn’t. You have to be nuts to start a company on credit cards and expect everything to be OK. …