By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n
I love sequels.<\/p>\n
It minimizes risk for us as CS major CEOs. The sequel to ReverseVC is ForwardVC<\/p>\n
Larry Chiang \u2730 (@LarryChiang) 5\/10\/12 8:15 AM I know I can get 13 IPO’s for 13 #csMajorCEO’s w no VC money in. #forwardVC<\/p>\n
The idea here is to unleash an army of Next Generation VCs in the form of an R2D2 venture associate.<\/p>\n
Huh?!<\/p>\n
You see, R2D2 makes the perfect VC. He saves Luke Skywalker’s ass time and time again. Right now the state of the VC industry is C3PO.<\/p>\n
Wha?!<\/p>\n
C3PO is tall, pretty and blonde just like the Winkelvoss twins. Yeah, they are VCs too. C3PO is really shiny. Really useless.<\/p>\n
Exhibit ONE: Millenium Falcon can’t make the jump to light speed and C3PO is waving and flailing his arms wanting to fire a founder and surrender. R2D2 is helping the CTO of the Millinium Falcon, Chewbacca, fix the warp drive with a few lines of well placed computer code.<\/p>\n
Exhibit TWO: Luke Shywalker, Han Solo and startup team have “left the building” in search of a business model and get stuck in a trash compactor on the Death Star. C3PO’s blackberry is on vacation mode. Enter: R2D2.<\/p>\n
R2D2 hacks the Death Star conference mainframe in 12 seconds flat to save the entire founder team.<\/p>\n
ForwardVC is an army of 600 R2D2 VCs hacking, hacking and hustling. We use Gua Gua Guacamole.<\/p>\n
The goal?!<\/p>\n
13 IPOs by 13 CS Major CEOs with 600 CS major R2D2 as VCs<\/p>\n
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