{"id":1681,"date":"2008-10-09T20:14:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2008-10-09T20:14:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:14:22","slug":"what-would-i-do-if-i-was-danny-rimer-or-mike-moritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"What would I do if I was Danny Rimer or Mike Moritz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-click\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034362831@N01\/2191584667\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034362831@N01\/2191584667\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2027\/2191584667_dc0d7aee30_m.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Rimer\" title=\"Danny Rimer\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\"\/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034362831@N01\/2191584667\">Joi<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Both Danny Rimer of Index Ventures and Mike Moritz of Sequoia are my partners in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fon.com\">Fon<\/a>.  At the same time I am an investor in Danny Rimer\u00b4s fund.  What I would do if I was a top tech VC? (I consider Mike Moritz the top tech VC in USA and Danny Rimer the top tech VC in Europe).  I would buy stocks of the listed companies who tend to buy the companies I invest in.  If that requires consent from my investors I would try to get it.  Why?  Because Cisco, Nokia, Google, Yahoo, Apple, are all down over 50% and frankly I see a much better opportunity for Danny, Mike and all other VCs to make money in the next 18 months buying shares in these companies  than investing in the next start up. Plus these companies need somebody who wants to invest with them now!   I would put half of the remaining funds in the top tech stocks and the other half in start ups further rounds.  As far as new start ups, I would get out of that business altogether for a while.  We know what happened to Bush we chose to go into Iraq before succeeding in Afghanistan.  Overstreching is bad.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/362a053b-44c1-433a-8cf3-4f2b6bdcf426\/\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=362a053b-44c1-433a-8cf3-4f2b6bdcf426\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1681\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Joi via Flickr Both Danny Rimer of Index Ventures and Mike Moritz of Sequoia are my partners in Fon. At the same time I am an investor in Danny Rimer\u00b4s fund. What I would do if I was a top tech VC? (I consider Mike Moritz the top tech VC in USA and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}