Web 2.0 Venture Capital Professionals
October 19, 2005
Trying asking your typical venture capital professional about tagging, rss, ajax, cake, lamp, mashup, microformats, open source, podcasting, or ruby on rails. You will get a blank stare or a dismissive glance. Mike Arrington suggests that most venture capitalists just don’t understand these Web 2.0 ideas. Ironically, he suggests that most “desperately want in to this renaissance of the web, but can’t be bothered to open up the simplest RSS reader…” Mike created a list of Web 2.0 Venture Capital Professionals who ‘get it’ here. Here is the short form list:
- David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- David Hornik, August Capital
- Josh Kopelman, FirstRoundCapital
- Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
- Jeff Clavier, SoftTechVC
- Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital
- Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network
- Peter Rip, Leapfrog Ventures
- Peter Thiel, Founders Fund
- Thomas Ball, Austin Ventures
- Dan Grossman, Venrock Associates
- Jason Pressman, Shasta Ventures
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