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| About Paul Kedrosky |
| Dr. Kedrosky is currently the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kedrosky is also a venture investor with Ventures West, Canada's largest institutional venture capital firm, where he is most active in consumer technologies and software. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software company. |
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Be it Resolved: Venture Capital is an Attractive Nuisance
- For more on Paul Kedrosky visit paul.kedrosky.com
Venture capital, as an institutional asset class, is pretty much dead. Sure, you can get returns from some smaller and more aggressive funds, but any supposed institutional financial asset class that a) can provably thrive only with teensy amounts of cash, and b) whose entire annual returns are bound up in fewer funds than there were graduates in my small-town high school class (18, if you must know), isn't really much of a financial asset class at all.
Matter of fact, given the tireless penchant of government and LPs for the field, it increasingly reminds me an attractive nuisance, to use the term of legal art. Hey, maybe like with neighborhood pools, or collapsing buildings, we need a metaphorical fence to protect childish would-be venture LPs from jumping in and hurting themselves.
Be it Resolved Venture Capital is an Attractive Nuisance - To learn more about this author, visit Paul Kedrosky's Website.
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David BarrDavid Barr is the President of Venture Opportunities, Inc. David has been a professional business broker/intermediary since 1980 focusing on General Business Brokerage and Mergers and Acquisitions representing client transaction value from $400,000 to $20,000,000. Mr. Barr has handled the sale of over four hundred and fifty companies. David earned a university degree from the State University of New York majoring in economics and business. David holds the Mergers and Acquisition Master Intermediary and the Certified Business Intermediary designations from the International Business Brokers Association. He is also a Senior Business Analyst and a Texas licensed Real Estate Agent. For more information about David and Venture Opportunities, visit www.bizdealmaker.com. - Visit David Barr's Website |
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