AMF Ventures Tony Smith on pain, marketing and telepathy Sometimes, actually most of the time, procrastination isn't a good thing. "Take the pain early,"said Tony Fish, a venture capitalist at AMF Ventures, whom I caught up with at Mobile 2.0's cocktail party in San Francisco.   "There are a lot of things going on in the moment and what you've got to focus on is just not over the hill, or waiting until next month," he said. "Take the pain. If you need to lose people, or reduce costs, get on and do it. Don't worry about next month. Focus on today. Get things sorted out."Surprisingly, as many companies forgo spending on discretionary expenses, such as marketing, Fish is advising that companies do spend on that. "There is opportunity ... [ Read more ]