Vinod Khosla, the venture capitalist, dropped 32 places to No. 92. Bruce Wasserstein, of Lazard and of Wasserstein & Company, fell 19 spots to No. 62.
That is, unless venture capitalists drop a pile of money in your lap.
"The white collar freeters, the members of the Dame-Ren have the nuance of strongly resembling the old-time hippies -- they are dropping out of modern capitalist society," he said of his coffee club group, largely composed of university graduates.
The amount raised by venture capitalists dropped sharply in the fourth quarter, falling to levels last seen in 1993, according to the National Venture Capital Association and Venture Economics.
The 22 students — selected from 90 applicants — spent five days meeting with CEOs, company founders, and venture capitalists, dropping in on Silicon Valley giants Google and Kleiner Perkins as well as startups such as Ooga Labs and Smule.
And I have given instances in the book where there's this venture capitalist that we just dropped like a hot potato right away, and said no, there's no culture match here.
And what do you do if you put out a magazine promoting itself as "The Capitalist Tool" and the market drops 700 points?
Former Stanford student Elise Clougherty has dropped a high-profile lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a former paramour who Clougherty later accused of sexual assault.
But since April, when technology stock prices dropped precipitously, some venture capitalists have said that they are investing in start-ups less aggressively than they did last year, wary that they will not be able to take the companies public so readily.
The arch capitalist, who inspires impressionable grown men to drop almost $4,700 on Sony spy gear.
