{"id":306,"date":"2007-01-09T07:14:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T12:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/01\/09\/fred-wilson-dislikes-the-techcrunch-dead-pool-too-bad\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:27:32","slug":"fred-wilson-dislikes-the-techcrunch-dead-pool-too-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/01\/09\/fred-wilson-dislikes-the-techcrunch-dead-pool-too-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Wilson Dislikes the Techcrunch Dead Pool &#8211; Too Bad!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2007\/01\/building_it_up_.html\">Fred Wilson<\/a> doesn&#8217;t like the <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2007\/01\/07\/bubble-bubble-bubble\/\">Dead Pool over at Techcrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine communicated a better idea for him and other venture capitalists. Why not spend more time looking at original ideas &#8211; real detailed business plans with actual revenue models? The dead pool would be a lot smaller if people did hard work instead of chasing &#8220;existing businesses&#8221; which are little more than a web site with some content. So why not spend more time looking early stage companies that have real, independent, revenue producing business models with strong strategy? You&#8217;ll find your industry default rate will go down. Don&#8217;t know where to find these fledgling companies? Just ask me (my referral fees are quite reasonable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Wilson doesn&#8217;t like the Dead Pool over at Techcrunch. A friend of mine communicated a better idea for him and other venture capitalists. Why not spend more time looking at original ideas &#8211; real detailed business plans with actual revenue models? The dead pool would be a lot smaller if people did hard work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}