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At the beginning of section 6. Think Long Term, you say "shear stress", but I think the word you intended to use is "sheer".

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It's correct as written. See sense 9 at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shear -- shearing stress is the stress between two blocks pressed together along a plane and moving in opposite directions parallel to that plane.

It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.

Personally I prefer the phrase "impedance mismatch".

It's much harder to explain impedance concisely. I, for one, never took a circuits class, and I wouldn't expect other CS programs to require one either.

pg actually spelt it out during the talk, as well.

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