Killah911

I just spoke with a friend who is a VC and he said we're too early for VC fundraising and should be meeting Angel Investors. The problem is, we've been here in Silicon Valley for almost a year and have yet to find a way to connect with VCs & Angel investors.

We know tons of people at Google (being in mountain view) & other local companies. But all we keep running into are company men. I actually ran into more VCs at a conference in LA (including Silicon Valley VCs). I subsequently followed up with the VCs locally (they said we're raising too little for them to be interested) which is great, but not much luck with Angels.

We've hung out at Red Rock Cafe where everyone intently stares at their MacBook Pros (which is cool if you want to see that kind of thing), but not a ton of networking going on there... What am I missing?

Just noticed that after I submitted an article which got quite afew up votes, my karma points went up by less than half that number. Anyone know if that's a bug or afew tire of post 1000 karma? At first I figured someone probably downvoted my comments somewhere, but now I'm noticing that this has been a constant thing.

Was planning to move to AWS & consolidate out server from Linode and Digital Ocean. OMG, it's been like the month from hell! I've had to spend incredible amounts of time trying to learn AWS & now I have a $1900 bill (highest Linodo bill was $150) b/c I checked the dedicated instance box I was playing around with.

I can't put into words the kind of frustration AWS creates compared to Linode or Digital Ocean. Why the hell are they still so popular?