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"Absolutely the most rational piece that has been written on the reasons why the VC industry will need to incorporate some changes going forward."
John Hauser
"Great article and responses."
Steve Herbert - Harvard Alumni Moderator
"Your blogs are a delight! Funny, informative to a subjective degree and most important to me, evoke an urge to response."
Early-stage CEO
"Fascinating post on VC changes and challenges."
Business & Tech Editor
" It is refreshing to see this sort of candor."
Entrepreneur & CEO
"I've been following your blog recently and I find it to be insightful and entertaining."
Early-stage CEO
"Good info about VC."
M&A advisor
" I enjoyed the article you posted with this group today and took the liberty of re-posting it elsewhere"
President Law Offices & Chairman
"Very interesting. Another great article from Georges."
International Venture Capital Editor
"I really liked your blog."
Director of Sales
" I couldn't agree more."
Investor and executive
"Excellent article."
Former Financial Times Editor
"I have come across your blog recently. Its been very inspiring to me. I have started fund raising process for our venture for a little over a month. Your blogs fully echo my experience so far."
Entrepreneur
" I thoroughly enjoyed your post. Thanks and keep up the great writing! "
Founder & CEO
"Loved your post on fund raising - it is spot on!"
Founder and serial CEO
"Would be most honored to add you to my network"
China Investment Partner
"Loved your blogs. I am going to send the link to companies' CEOs so they can realize that the issue might not be a lack of money! "
Board Trustee
"Your articles are darn good."
CEO
"I share many of your thoughts with regard CEOs raising Venture Capital"
Entrepreneur, CTO & President
"I agree with most of what you say."
Venture Capitalist
"Which investors to avoid... very practical and useful info."
Founder & CEO
"I love your post "Idiot CEOs." Having bootstrapped to success three ventures with exit from sale and one IPO I agree with you."
Founder & CEO
"I read your article about "Idiot CEOs" After doing 3 turnarounds without VCs, I took on one startup with VC backing and will never do that again. "
Serial CEO, Director
"Somebody pointed me to you blog on Idiot CEOs. Great stuff."
Editor at Top 20 technology blog
"You are an advocate to the CEO, and I have much respect for you"
President & CEO
"I just read your post titled "Idiot CEOs" and enjoyed it. I am CEO of my first venture and trying to avoid VC like the plague by creating intelligent partnerships."
CEO
"I enjoy your blog very much."
Private Equity Investor
"We just went through a lot of what you wrote about -- and in the end decided on a different path for funding because it didn't make any sense."
CEO
"Read George’s article, it’s a good one."
Lorenzo Geraci
"Painful to read for me, but a Great article -- I only wish you'd had sent this to me in 1997"
Vice President
"Great post! A must read"
Founder & CEO
"Fascinating column and equally so some of the earlier ones. I will look for future ones."
CEO, Director & Investor
"I have been reading your insights posted on your blogs with great interest."
Startup CEO, Israel
"I looove the “Idiot CEO” article, very well done."
Management Consultant
"I like your blog and here in continental Europe the behaviour of VCs is even worse."
Investor, Chairman & CEO
"I was foolish enough to raise VC money as a new CEO and everything that you described took place - everything!"
Startup CEO
"Very interesting and also very enlightening."
Founder & CEO
"A lot of truth and valid observations."
Harvard Alumni
"Another insightful article from Georges, as usual."
Managing Director
"You nail the current VC dysfunction."
General Manager
"A MUST read for any Entrepreneur out there."
Serial entrepreneur
"Your comments about the VC industry are so totally right, this is something that I have been fighting against for many years."
Asset Manager
"Great Article. Really Outstanding Vision of The Industry. You should be running things in Washington, DC."
CTO
"I have read over 90% of your blogs. I'm in complete alignment with your principals."
Serial CEO
"I've just finished reading about 6 of your articles. Your thoughts mirror my experiences."
President, Services company
"In my experience, this is unfortunately true..."
Steve Woda, Founder & Chairman, Wharton publisher
"I very much enjoyed your comment on the ridiculous piece about Tim Draper's new business idea this morning. Thank goodness there are some rational folks out there."
Anonymous
"Fascinating column and equally so some of the earlier ones. I forwarded them on to a couple folks."
Serial CEO, Investor
"Fascinating blog. I recognize many things you are talking about."
Funded startup CEO
"I learned more from 10 minutes in talking with you than from a 2 days at a conference."
International Investor
"I just wanted to say thank you. I discovered your blog today and after the first skim, I feel energized and not "alone" anymore. Very encouraging to read what you have written."
Entrepreneur
"I was both excited to read your thoughts, and relieved to find that I am not alone. "
CEO, former PE Consultant & Investment Banker
"Tremendous insight and right on target as usual."
President
"You probably have no idea how right you are on green & energy tech."
Alternative Energy Investor
"Awesome post! Some good advice for LPs."
Management Consultant, former Venture Partner
"Kudos for terrific profile and the energy and achievement represented."
Management Consultant
"I like what you have to say about how VCs treat CEOs. That's consistent with my 15 years of working with VCs."
President & CEO
"I will not accept outside investment because of the people that come with it."
President & CEO
"So glad I came across your blog."
Entrepreneur
"Your blog made me laugh and cry. I admire your pragmatic logic."
Startup veteran and entrepreneur
"An eye opener."
Management Consultant
"We just went through a lot of what you wrote about -- and in the end decided on a different path for funding because it didn't make any sense."
Startup CEO
"I have never before read anybody who called it."
Owner PR firm
"Awesome stuff."
Sr Managing Director, PE firm
"Your website is truly outstanding and informative."
Founder, PhD
"Very well done!!"
U.S. Inventor & CEO
"I'm finally reading your blog -- I shouldn't have waited so long."
CEO
"I cannot tell you how refreshing your piece about the naked emperor is!"
Venture Catalyst Asia
"I've been reading your blogs on the VC sector. AMEN!!"
CFO
"I love your blog"
Management Consultant
"Dead on point."
General Partner, VC
"I read through your entire blog. Outstanding points."
Serial entrepreneur
"I should have talked with you 5 years ago"
CEO
"Your blog was refreshing -- I consider it one of the few that really add something profound."
Serial entrepreneur
"I applaud your blogs"
Managing Partner, IB
"Great piece"
Adjunct Professor
"Good stuff"
General Partner, VC
"I was up until 3:00 am last night reading your past blog postings. Very compelling and insightful stuff."
Entrepreneur
"The no holds barred clarity of your writing, based on a foundation of direct experience, continues to shine a rare ray of light in the darkness of a long tunnel that still lies ahead of us."
Entrepreneur
"I like the way you think and I'm learning from you!"
CEO
"One of the best articles I ever read..."
CEO
"I haven't read something that inspiring and well written in quite a while"
Entrepreneur
"Your article was like a fresh breeze ….Thanks for such clarity …"
Serial entrepreneur
"Thank God people like you still exist!"
Serial entrepreneur
"Another great blog."
CEO
"You are giving away some good reading. Thanks again!"
Entrepreneur
"This article should be a must read for any entrepreneur looking for VC funding."
Strategic Advisor
"Your viewpoint is refreshing with a lot of interesting insight"
CEO and public speaker
"You are often prescient"
Market maker
"Thank you for telling it like it is, for inspiring people like me, and for trying to change the investment LP world"
Sr Staff Software Engineer
"I appreciate all the tremendous information that you have provided to all of us early stage start up entrepreneurs."
CEO
"I stumbled on your blog a couple of weeks ago and it grabbed me by the brain stem and has resonated through my neural matter ever since."
Life Sciences Chairman
"Thanks for your brilliant commentary about the broken VC model and how to fix it through transparency."
Managing Director M&A
"I really enjoy your blog immensely."
Director Venture Lab
"Your article "How to fix VC" is VERY nicely stated! "
Director Private Investors Forum
"You have a very rare blend of talents. Hands on experience with making several startups successful is rare in itself, but your ability to add a high quality intellectual perspective to it definitively sets you apart."
Venture Capital Journalist
"As always a good and thought-provoking read. Looking forward to your next installment."
Technology Lawyer
"Many thanks for this. Your refreshing take on the required consciousness for funding and funders is a breath of fresh air in a world of darkness."
Venture Catalyst
"This is one of the best articles I read in a long time. Everything is right on!"
Serial Entrepreneur
"...I will keep following your amazing blog."
Harvard MBA student
"As usual great article Georges! I wish I would have been able to read your stuff before I did my first startup, as I had to learn everything you've been saying the hard way."
Research Associate Professor
"Thank you for being this new, fresh voice of Venture Capital."
Private Equity Analyst
"...as always, insightful and pointed. I love the candor of it."
PE and VC recruiter
"Keep up the important work you are doing!"
Entrepreneur
"Thoughtful and insightful comments on the vc industry."
Twenty-year LP/VC conference organizer
"Excellent article (and supplements). I agree entirely with your premise the system needs to be fixed."
Serial CEO
"This was a very nice post, it was extremely interesting and well written"
Dr Brian Glassman, PhD Purdue University
"Great post"
Thomas Loarie - Chairman, Medical Device Company
"Brilliant as always, I hope the LP's are listening and acting."
Kenneth Hurley, CEO
"Can't agree more with your opinion about the VC industry. It definitely has a serious case of self-induced indigestion."
VC Director, SandHill Road
"May I say that in my experience of reading many blogs yours is by far the most interesting. Brilliantly written and candid with a very balanced and informative view."
CEO, Chairman & Investor
"Enjoy your blog, and thanks for the great thoughts!"
Limited Partner
"I love your blog."
CEO, International Business Journal
"What is different about your blog is that it is speaking to me, instead of about me."
Entrepreneur
"I couldn't agree with you more."
VP Sales
"This is a very thoughtful approach and many of the top plan sponsors and LPs are aggressively looking at ways to address the gap you’ve outlined. This is very well done."
Fund-of-Funds manager
"Congrats on an excellent presentation."
CEO
"This is very impressive!"
CEO
"This is impressive."
Entrepreneur
"I have been a VC for 9 years at a few different firms and have raised money successfully from LPs. You have developed an excellent presentation that hits the nail on the head."
Former VC
"I think you are on to something."
Limited Partner
"Great Article!"

Steve Woda, Wharton
"Spoken like a man after my own heart. Bravo, Georges!"
CEO
"You have isolated a looming bottleneck that affects the heart of future innovation, e.g. flow of finances to start-ups."
President and Founder, Entrepreneurial Foundation
"You are the subject-matter expert of Venture."

Venture Journalist
"I wonder if you could spearhead Washington..."
Chief Scientific Officer, Pharmaceutical Company
"What you detailed in the slide deck precisely maps to my experience. Good job."
Startup Veteran
"The future of my company looks bright again. I am grateful for the very sound advice you gave me a year ago. So … Thank you!"
CEO
"You've nailed it! Thanks for what you are doing. You are really on to something big."
Entrepreneur
"Your feedback has been invaluable!"
Entrepreneur
"Thanks for your notes, Georges. We have had serious issues with our VC's - similar to those you have identified in your various posts."
Co-founder
"While a tough pill to swallow due to the blunt nature of your writing, I found it insightful and accurate."
Mark Suster, GRP Partners
"I am really enjoying your great efforts to making people understand how VC works and how flawed it can be."
Managing Director
"A very well thought article and vision."
Managing Director, VC
"Wow! You have amazing insight into what changes must take place."
CEO
"You rock."
Adeo Ressi, CEO The Funded
"Your views are insightful..."
Founding Partner
"I am grown man, but when I saw "The State of Venture Capital" slide on your blog site, I nearly cried."
Serial Entrepreneur
"Spot on!"
Chairman & CEO
"Very revealing and spot on as usual."
Managing Director
"Excellent article explaining the risk-return ratio in LPs."
President Investment Firm
"Another high quality post. Thank you Georges!"
Venture Journalist
"I have been having so much fun reading your blogs for the past couple of hours that I haven't got much work done this afternoon (and for a change I love every bit of it).

I hope you continue to carry on the torch for the many terrific entrepreneurs out there."
Founder & CTO
"I absolutely LOVE your work."
VP Marketing, $3B Venture Firm
"If you are raising money, you have to talk to Georges!"
Serial CEO, Chairman, Investor
"Your story is very impressive."
Limited Partner
"You are a breath of fresh air ... God bless you my friend and your quest to change a system that has been broken for a long time."
President & CEO
"I think you are the only sane person left in Venture..."
IT manager
"Thank you for writing and sharing your truth from courage, and inspiring me to continue to lead the charge..."
Entrepreneur
"Prolific, Prophetic and Politically incorrect as usual! When can we do coffee?"
VC
"Thank You. What you are doing... it will not only save the industry. It's a complete redesign, rendering the old model both unrecognizable and obsolete."
Serial Entrepreneur
"This guy really gets it!" about the music business and the role of technology in it.
Grammy winning Music Producer
"Your writing is brilliant and spot on!"
Founder InterimCEO/CFO
"Your comments are completely in line with my recent experience"
COO/CTO