One of the great things about blogs is that anyone and everyone can share their writing with the world. Some famous, some infamous, some up-and-coming, and lots of ordinary folks sharing with a few friends -- and the world. The informal nature of blogging gives those who are famous (at least within a niche) a great opportunity to show their own "ordinary folks" side.

Yesterday, top VC blogger Fred Wilson posted I Got Lucky:

I didn't know anything about the technology business and venture capital when I showed up for work at Euclid. I knew how to write software and knew a fair bit about personal computers. But nothing about the business of software and computers. And I had never worked in a real operating position. In fact, I never have and probably never will. This was a severe handicap and for the next 10 years I kind of stumbled around the venture capital business.

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Then I got lucky. The Internet came along.

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I left Euclid in early 1996, started Flatiron Partners with Jerry Colonna who had been doing Internet deals at CMGI

(It's a great post; read the whole thing.)

First comment is from Jerry Colonna:

Of course Fred left out a crucial part...how he canceled our first lunch designed to talk about getting into business together so he could attend his daughter Jessica's kindergarten graduation. Little did he realize that--at THAT moment and not at "hello"--he had me. I knew he had his head screwed on right and his heart in the right place and then we'd be great partners. And we were.

Jerry

PS And when we DID get together for lunch finally, I believe we couldn't stop talking about how brilliant Seth Godin was and and how we both loved Yoyodyne.

Seth Godin weighs in shortly thereafter:

Of course, Fred, you didn't mention the "give" that goes with get. I got lucky when Jerry and you showed up for lunch that day and my company became Flatiron's first deal.

Thanks for that.

(Boy are we old or what?)

That's the kind of exchange that's common in blogging and rare in old media.