"Lotus and Compaq (formerly known as Gateway Computer)"

<scooby>Guhuh?</scooby>

O man , they did lose out by not able to understand the business model. Bad analysts? They must hire some fortune teller instead who could predict future of companies :-))

Forget about the fact they passed on all those now valuable companies. Look at how much work it takes to raise money!

Yeah, FedEx got the Heisman seven times. Pretty sick.

I think that investors tend to forget how big of a drain they really can be to startups.