Back in January, Larry Chiang wrote an informative piece over at GigaOm on which venture capitalists to avoid.

No names are mentioned, just their characteristics. He offers a list of nine VC archetypes you’ll definitely want to avoid, just as soon as you hit the $900,000-mark.

Here are the first three to get you in the mood:

1) Mr. Armchair. He’s a Friday afternoon Chairman. He knows exactly what he’d do as board member of facebook, Google, MySpace.,YouTube. Too bad his portfolio company’s don’t get the same enthusiastic coverage.

2) Mr. One-Hit-Wonder. Yes he sold Postage.com for $200 million (and kept $15 million) so if you wanna hear war stories from the ’90s, take this GSB alum’s money.

3) Mr. Spray-n-Pray. He cites being founding CEO as his Operations experience. (Translation: He was a interim CEO for his last venture firm before company/portfolio implosion and subsequent fund implosion. His fund is a catch-all and he tries to participate in every Sequoia backed deal.

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