Press from VentureWire
When I got a call from Dow Jones last week and my thought process was as such:
1) Seriously?
2) The price of the site has gone up now.
3) I hope they will do a good job with it.
Fortunately for everyone, everything I thought of happened. Notice the new price for the site (+$1 for every unique visitor we get to the site, which is now at 19,263) and the fantastic article below, which no doubt is front page WSJ material.
Clever T-Shirts Target ‘Twisted, Warped’ VCs in the February 25th via Dow Jones and VentureWire
By Arwen “the awesome” Ungar (emphasis ours), reprinted in entirety with permission.
2/25/2008
What is the biggest problem facing venture capitalists?
The lack of clever T-shirts.
Or so says VC Wear, a company that started as a joke aiming “to take over the fashion world, make the whole world smile and cure some disease somehow.”
After hearing friend and venture capitalist at Pearl Street Venture Funds Paul Roales being harangued in a bar by an overeager entrepreneur pitching a stealth-mode contextual advertising company, Andrew Hyde, co-founder of entrepreneur conference organization Startup Weekend, decided he could provide a truly invaluable service to venture capitalists: High-priced T-shirts - available only to accredited investors - warning off the passionate, the inexperienced and the pushy with slogans like, “Don’t Pitch Me, Bro” and “Your mom is not a valid test market.”
