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Hollywood writers turn to Sand Hill Road for handouts



As the writers' strike wears on in Hollywood, TV and film scribes have turned to plotting startup strategies instead of scripts, the Los Angeles Times reports.

These wantrepreneur writers are taking inspiration from Will Ferrell's FunnyOrDie.com and former MTV executive Rob Barnett's MyDamnChannel.com. Now that's hilarious. Some are even talking about creating Facebook applications. And despite that, hedge funds and VCs like Accel and Spark Capital are taking meeting with them. We don't know who's fooling whom here, but it all sounds like a great idea for a sitcom.

3:00 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
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