I just find it crazy that these VC houses don’t have a single cynical RF
engineer on tap to advise them on deals like this.
I used to do that job for a smaller VC banker in a previous life.
I shot down every single presentation I remember except one:
A company wanted to buy the rights to an abandoned pipeline (water, sewer
something, cannot remember) between Philadelphia and Manhattan (as I recall) a
company wanted to blow a fiber down it.
This was about 1998.
I told them to go full steam ahead on that project.
The banker rejected it.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 11:09 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Starry raises $100M for 802.11-based fixed wireless
rollout | FierceWireless
Anyone remember MetroFi? I do. We got a couple of nice Dragonwaves when they
went bankrupt.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 7/7/2018 8:28 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
A C series of financing... that means they have already blown all the seed
round, series A and series B money.
And they are just re-packaging the same tired old idea. Google Fiber morphed
into one of these... did it ever amount to anything?
I am totally cynical. I don’t believe in these mm bands for PMP.
Range and weather are always going to be a problem.
Use the $100M to build fiber instead.
From: Jaime Solorza
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2018 9:16 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: [AFMUG] Starry raises $100M for 802.11-based fixed wireless rollout
| FierceWireless
https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/starry-raises-100m-for-802-11-based-fixed-wireless-rollout
Jaime Solorza
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