This morning, I had a meeting with someone at University Cafe on University Ave in Palo Alto. Being a little hungry for breakfast, I arrived an hour early to eat before my meeting arrived.
\nSitting here in one of the more popular cafes in downtown Palo Alto, I scanned around the room just to check out who was there. It was pretty amusing.
\nThere were the “blues” and the “not-blues”.
\nThe “not-blues” were people who looked to be Palo Alto residents, or those who worked in various businesses based in Palo Alto. They were dressed in a variety of ways, generally in jeans and very casual.
\nThen there were the “blues”. It was pretty funny. Everybody else here had dark dress pants and a blue collared shirt. It was very obvious that a large population of the venture capitalists also came to University Cafe to have breakfast meetings. Talk about attack of the clones!
\nYou know what – blue does look good. It is a cool color and has a calming effect, more to woo potential entrepreneurs and partners by having that trustworthy effect on people around you (little do they know…ha!). It must be a critical component of the venture capitalist how-to manual, under the chapter entitled “Venture Capitalist Dress Code.”
\nAmong VCs, blue is the new black!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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