You have to realize that these things are potent cardiac stimulants, and when you are exercising and lifting heavy weights, you are already taxing your cardiovascular system, and all this does is make it work harder.

You have to be careful. I see what I would suggest are features being funded as companies right now.

If a conventional pharmaceutical company had this kind of quality control, the FDA would shut them down in a heartbeat.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.