Just a quick note that VCWear will be pitched (and funded if the right people remember to wear their Armani jacket with the checkbook in the pocket) at the Boulder Open Coffee Club, at the Cup in Boulder tomorrow at 8am.
Fuck It I’ll Fund that just hit 8,200 unique views, being our most popular shirt.
For those of you well dressed and just plain awesome, two shirts are now ready to ship.
Every VC has an internal secret weapon. It is a magical word really, one that defies an entire feeling of indifference without wasting more than four keystrokes (including punctuation). Over the years it has saved over 14 years of valuable time, equaling at least a million in savings. That word, my friends is Meh. Meh is the verbal or typed shrugging of the shoulders (see the shirt for instructions). It is the VC version of blue steel. Interference is suddenly gone, peace is restored and you realize just how awesome you really are. All in one word. Let’s try it out, shall we? You get an email from your brother-in law’s tennis coaches Mother pitching a social network that targets soccer moms while they are in cars. Meh. Move on. What time is tennis? See, isn’t that better?
This shirt is currently not for sale.
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.”
You: Hello, welcome, take a seat
Me: Thank you, I have an exciting business opportunity to tell you about.
You: Don’t pitch me, bro. Door ->>
Me: I will just put the pitch online.
**UPDATE** This has been downloaded over 4000 times in the 5 days this site has been up.
And the site has not been purchased yet. Price is going up soon, so buy it now to catch a steal.
Being a VC, some would say, is all about status. It isn’t what your yacht is like, it is which yacht you are talking about in the first place. See our My Other Plane is shirt for inspiration.
Because the $100 VC Undershirt is the new multi million dollar acquisition of a consumer based web app that you wither away and destroy, you should buy a few, just to keep everyone guessing.
Who are you courting to have a portfolio company acquired? Nothing says ‘love,’ ‘hard to get’ and ’status’ like a VC Wear shirt. Nothing.
Well, owning this site would. You should buy it now to make sure. If you wait too long, the price will go up.
But you knew that. You smart VC, you.
