The document summarizes trends in venture capital investing, startups, and technology platforms. It notes that venture capital funds are becoming smaller with fewer large funds, and more "super angels" and micro-VC funds. Incubators and accelerators are focusing on running many small experiments to filter out failures through metrics and iteration. Exits are also becoming smaller with more acquisitions under $250 million. Platforms are distributing and monetizing, not just technology, with distribution through search, social media, and mobile dominant.

1. Venture Capital 2.0 : The [Global] Lean VC Dave McClure http://500startups.com ( @DaveMcClure ) Telegraph Start-Up 100 – March 2011 Re-Inventing Venture Capital Investing through Innovation, Incubation, & Iteration http://slideshare.net/dmc500hats

5. Read Geoffrey Miller Sex + Evolution + Consumer Mktg = Awesome Sauce

6. Other Great Shit. Psychology + Comics

7. Platforms 2.0 Search, Social, Mobile

9. Platform Viability Successful Platforms have 3 Things: 1) Features 2) Users 3) Money Users . . Money Features Growth Profit Profitable Growth Nirvana

12. Startup Incubators Lots of Hot, Cool, Web 2.0! (+ lots of FAIL .)

16. Venture Capital 2.0 (smaller, faster, better) Venture Capital 1.0 “ Super” Angel (aka Micro-VC)

17. Silicon Valley Investor Ecosystem True Ventures First Round Capital Benchmark Accel SoftTech (Clavier) Felicis (Senkut) SV Angel (Conway) White Bear (GRRR!!) Angels & Incubators ($0-10M) “ Seed” Funds ($10-50M) VC Funds ($50-250M) VC Funds (>$250M) Y-Combinator TechStars

20. Investor Metrics: “Super Angel” -> Lean VC Not “ Spray & Pray ”, but rather “ Quantitative, Incremental, Selective Follow-on ” Investing. (Product, Market, Revenue.)

28. [ Don’t Pitch Me, Bro. ] Seriously : Don’t . Fuckin g. . Pitch M e . (and don’t email m e either, cuz i won’t read it)