Comments on: Live as if you would die tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever

By: fred wilson

fred wilson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:24:46 +0000

i am sure there have been many companies started out of the insights gained from a blog post and the comments to it. i try to start as many of those conversations as i can. anything to spark the germ of company formation because that's what people like brad and i profit from.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:42:02 +0000

Did you see Joe Lazarus' proposed solution (by comment on fred's post)? It reminds me of the story you tell about the origins of newsgator starting with reading greg's blog post and realizing that there was a company there…

By: Dave Naffziger

Dave Naffziger — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:39:28 +0000

Thanks for the mention. Great anecdote – I can only imagine the economic pain caused by not filing an 83b.