500-startups

Startup Music Video Will Make You Glad You Stayed in School

Sam Biddle · 10/29/13 02:41PM

Parody routines like this are usually a bad idea outside of talent shows for kids, but what's the Valley life for if not perpetuating childhoods? Making money, of course—and what better source material than the anti-materialism anthem "Royals"?

The Obnoxious Email Auto-Replies of a Super VC

Sam Biddle · 04/22/13 10:49AM

Successful mega-investor Dave McClure is all about quantity over quality, and he's not ashamed: his fund is called 500 Startups, after all. But if you want to be part of this moneyed crowd, you'll have to get past the worst email wall I've ever seen.