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Also, she included angel groups like Angels' Forum, Keiretsu Forum and Sand Hill Angels that do not have official funds, as well as, including strategic funds like BASF, who do not have an investor or die model. Finally, she lists Ron Conway and Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital, who are not out of dry powder.

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She's not saying they're evil! She's just presenting a data point, and then some further advice on screening once you get a first meeting. The people arguing about specific entries on the list are missing the point.

Actually, she called them 'Zombies.' I guess that's not exactly calling them 'evil', but same difference.

I agree that "zombies" is good writing but suboptimal reporting, in the same sense as maybe Ron Conway really isn't investing, but if he's not taking spurious first meetings with company operators, he's not "walking among us" and thus doesn't qualify as a zombie.

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