A presentation on Enio Morricone, the rise of the spaghetti western, and the curse of serial entrepeneurship.

1. Morricone’s Bubbles Paul Kedrosky October 31, 2006 Serial Entrepreneurs & the State of Venture Capital

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5. Il Brutto

7. “ The traditional venture model seems to us to be broken .” - Steve Dow, Sevin Rosen Funds (NY Times, 10/7/2006)

10. Julian Simon, 1932 - 1998

11. The quest for best practices

16. There are legendary assholes who have done quite well, glad-handers who have also done well, the occasional whiz-kid , and even an aw-shucks guy or two [but] not a single spreadsheet-jockey has ever been successful over the long-haul. What all the best venture capitalists [have] in common is a good gut and some teflon coating that keeps them from getting jaded. They maintain the capacity to fall in love with new deals even after having had their heart broken a time or two.

17. Bunny Lebowski : Ulli doesn't care about anything. He's a Nihilist. The Dude : Ah. Must be exhausting. - The Big Lebowski (1998)

18. Il Buono

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21. 1985: $71,000 1990: $9,000 1995: $880 2000: $14.29 2006: $0.50 Data is the Intel Inside 1980: $183,000 / Gb

22. $145-billion 11% 1.6%

26. MIT currently sequences ¼ million pieces of DNA per day. - Eric Lander (MIT)

28. Source: “Success and death on Everest,” American Alpine Journal (2003) 3.4% vs. 1.8%

29. We may not be interested in chaos, but chaos is interested in us. - from “The Breaking of Nations” (2004)

30. "You go back to what Bach composed and how much Mozart wrote in 33 years, and you see I am unemployed compared to this." - Ennio Morricone (2001)

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