Wednesday - October 13, 2010.
by Georges van Hoegaerden
Filed in: Venture | Finance
Released to the public on January 31, 2010. Easily the most highly recognized presentation on the State of Venture Capital by investors, both in terms of accolades, impressions and feedback. And since it describes the systemic issues in Venture The State of Venture Capital is just as applicable today as it was when created. More than 150 money managers (including some VCs) have requested a controlled prerelease of The State of Venture Capital on January 1st, 2010. Since then more than 10,434 have reviewed the presentation online, and its content has been
generously lauded. But feel free to make up your own mind.
What this presentation is not:
• This is not another numbers deck: clearly not everything that can be counted, can be counted on...
• This is not yet another self-written report card from venture capital lobbyists
• This is not a blind prayer for hope of a better future
What this presentation contains:
• This is an analysis of the deployment of risk in Venture Capital from the point of view of a successful entrepreneur; first hand observations
• This is a top-down analysis of the Venture ecosystem for Limited Partners
• This is a permanent fix to Venture and a methodology for LPs and Fund-of-funds of how to re-commit
The Prelude to the permanent fix of Venture Capital is available right here (also available in a full-screen version):
Feel free to make comments, ask questions by using
the online form or contact us by telephone.
The top-down fix to Venture Capital is reserved to Venture Company customers, embodies a new market system and provides fundamental differentiation to Limited Partners and Fund-of-funds managers and a permanent solution to the malaise in venture. Change is easy, if you are willing to make the decisions that come with it. Unchanged Venture will erode the opportunity for groundbreaking innovation further.
The world of monetizable innovation has changed, and we need to change with it. Venture should be and can again be, with restructuring, the best performing asset class (sector) to money managers.
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