Agreed, the title is a bit sensational. There are a handful of active, quality firms on this list. I don't think it's fair to call out SoftBank Capital, Quotidian, etc. I appreciate the goal here, but the approach is flawed. (FWIW, I work in venture, but the firm I work at is not listed.)
I work at Quotidian, and I agree it's a bit amusing to see our name there, since we're almost exclusively an angel fund. (Perhaps flattering, to be mistaken for a larger firm!).
To give you an idea of how 'dead' we are, note that the spreadsheet lists the date of our most recent angel investment as this week!
The goal is noble - the spreadsheet should be taken as a starting point, not a finishing point.
> USV missed the cutoff by 2 months, they were in the Sift Science Series A in November 2012
Understood, I just wanted to point out that there are legitimate reasons to go six months (or longer) without investing. The metric is helpful, but, like any isolated metric, not comprehensive.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together - very interesting data.
That's one of my concerns. One of their clasues state "Termination for Breach. [...] if Customer is an individual, Customer was not at least 18 years old or otherwise did not have the legal capacity to enter into the MSA".
Note the "was" and "did", I assume your account can be terminated right now. Whether they enforce it or not is another question.
Great idea and beautiful UI. I sent chocolates to a friend in SF. I'm a little sad he got an email notification, though. I was hoping it would be a surprise.
Yeah, HackNY is awesome, great way to find internships with startups. In particularly, I know the Parsely guys and I met their interns last summer...they seemed to be having a good time and feel quite integrated into the team. I've also talked to someone who had a good time at Aviary.
Also, I know Parsely uses Python for some stuff and I think they use Django somewhere as well, fwiw.
