Comments on: What Sequoia Capital Should Look For in Startups http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/ Connecting the dots ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/#comment-1032 Anonymous Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:45:55 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/#comment-1032 <p> My source was Valleywag; they refer to <a href="http://www.pewnews.com/story.asp?sectioncode=44&storycode=40886" rel="nofollow">Private Equity Week</a>, but that's "behind some impenetrable registration wall", so it wouldn't be particularly useful to readers. </p> <p>Thanks for catching the typo.  </p> My source was Valleywag; they refer to Private Equity Week, but that’s “behind some impenetrable registration wall”, so it wouldn’t be particularly useful to readers.

Thanks for catching the typo. 

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/#comment-1031 Anonymous Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:12:05 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/#comment-1031 How about linking back to the ORIGINAL CONTENT instead of giving Valleywag credit for a scoop it didn't get. And you spelled Sequoia wrong. How about linking back to the ORIGINAL CONTENT instead of giving Valleywag credit for a scoop it didn’t get. And you spelled Sequoia wrong.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/#comment-1030 Anonymous Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:28:57 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/11/16/what-sequoia-capital-should-look-for-in-startups/#comment-1030 I doubt this part of the Valleywag story has the spin exactly right. In my experience, VCs in general have it on their core checklist to be careful about IP developed by teams who developed it while still at a prior company in the same space. There may be truth in it, but I think it's unlikely it's black-and-white if Sequoia invested. I doubt this part of the Valleywag story has the spin exactly right. In my experience, VCs in general have it on their core checklist to be careful about IP developed by teams who developed it while still at a prior company in the same space. There may be truth in it, but I think it’s unlikely it’s black-and-white if Sequoia invested.

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