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		markm on June 20, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How not to approach an investor It takes a certain level of courage to ask someone for money. And whoever this is put on a false sense of bravado and yes he got burned. But it should also take some self restraint to not post this crap on your blog, especially if you're a VC.

akd on June 20, 2008 [–]

This is more than a bad pitch. It would be low class to ridicule people with bad ideas, but people with ridiculous attitudes should be mocked.

markm on June 21, 2008 | [–]

I still say it's a low class move to laugh at this guys expense.

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