Friday - February 04, 2011.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
- Mark Fidelman came up with a list of most respected Venture Capitalists
based on sentiment analysis technology. Kind of like a photo sharing site where those who rate an image have demonstrated to be in no correlation to those who buy the photograph. Transactional transparency is the only merit that counts Mark, and faking economic principles is the kiss of death to its underlying asset. In an industry where VCs produce minus 4% IRRs and thus subprime Venture returns, the assessment of those who arbitrage innovation rated by those who chase it is economically irrelevant. Even though I would have put one or two of those people on my list.
Tags: Venture Capital, Transparency, Respected
Tuesday - November 03, 2009.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
It is time to demand from VC not relative, but absolute performance. And stop listening to those who are going to be cannibalized or replaced...
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Tags: Macro-economics, VC, Private Equity, Congress, Marketplace, Innovation, Limited Partners
Wednesday - May 14, 2008.
by Georges van Hoegaerden

As an entrepreneur,
be prepared to talk to more Venture Capitalists and saddle up for an extensive roadshow. The cost of doing business to entrepreneurs
and investors has increased dramatically...
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Tags: Investment, Innovation, VC, Funds, Altos Ventures, HamiltonLane, Accel Partners, Limited Partners, Carlyle, CalPERS, Accel, AAAIM, SFERS