That’s the question posed by Charley Polachi at Private Equity Hub. The results of a survey of over 1,000 VCs seem to indicate that it is, and the industry as a whole is in need of a ‘reset’ – both in terms of the number and type of companies involved, and in terms of their attitude to ‘innovation.’ Although in …
Why VCs Hate Science
Georges van Hoegaerden has an interesting comparison between how the venture capital model is supposed to work (the Vinhod Khosla model), and how it actually works (the Subprime VC model) these days – as illustrated by the charts below. It’s a nice comparison and neatly illustrates how the low risk subprime model forces VCs to invest in technologies where much …