- "Bnter was so star-struck by Spark"? I've never heard of entrepreneurs being star-struck by investors.

- 4 months of due diligence? Many rounds are dead if they drag out past 2 months.

- "Only then did it occur to the Spark team to check with Tumblr founder David Karp to make sure he wouldn’t view this as a competing company"? This is usually step 1 of the due-diligence process. Things like this don't just randomly "occur" to professional VC companies.

There are so many odd things in this article, I'm not sure if it's just Sarah Lacy embellishing with her writing, or what...