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Silicon Valley Watcher covers "Dumb Capital Please Exit Here"
August 26, 2010.
Italian Liquida covers "Saving Silicon Valley"
August 07, 2010.
Italian Liquida covers "Saving Silicon Valley". Liquida offers a new and entertaining way to stay informed with a strong focus on quality and a vertical approach to user-generated-content.
Management Innovation Exchange (MIX) credits Georges
August 02, 2010.
Management Innovation Exchange (MIX) credits Georges' narrations. The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age.
International Trade News covers "Saving Silicon Valley"
July 29, 2010.
International Trade News covers "Saving Silicon Valley". Established in 1995, EIN News began by supplying business professionals and individuals with relevant and interesting news products. It has grown to become the largest digital news provider in Europe.
San Francisco Chronicle covers "Saving Silicon Valley"
July 29, 2010.
The New York Times mentions "Saving Silicon Valley"
July 29, 2010.
Blogrunner covers "Saving Silicon Valley"
July 29, 2010.
Blogrunner covers "Saving Silicon Valley". Blogrunner articles are chosen by The New York Times editors.
Silicon Valley Watcher covers "Saving Silicon Valley"
July 29, 2010.
SEO Japan covers our classification of subprime VC
July 14, 2010.
Infectious Greed blog covers "Idiot LPs"
June 14, 2010.
Fast Company covers "Redefining Capital Efficiency"
May 09, 2010.
Zeal covers "Redefining Capital Efficiency"
May 09, 2010.
Zeal covers "Redefining Capital Efficiency".
Zeal is a web directory that helps users find and discover new websites. It contains a database of millions of websites, categorized by content matter, and filtered through by editors and automated tools. Zeal relies on volunteers to help edit the directory and to ensure that only high quality sites are included in the directory.
Zimbio covers "VC roast; how to take Venture for a ride"
April 27, 2010.
Zimbio covers "VC roast; how to take Venture for a ride".
Zimbio is an interactive magazine publisher focused on entertainment, style, current events, and other pop culture topics. Zimbio.com, one of the fastest growing web publications and one of the 10 most popular magazines on the web, is now read by over 20 million people each month. The company is based in San Carlos, Calif., and is venture-backed by Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards.
BusinessWeek covers "VC roast; how to take Venture for a ride"
April 27, 2010.
Candid Capital covers "VC roast; how to take Venture for a ride"
April 26, 2010.
Bing selects "VC roast: how to take Venture for a ride" as top shared link in the PE category on Twitter
April 22, 2010.
Bing selects "VC roast: how to take Venture for a ride" as top shared link in the PE category on Twitter
Found3r covers "VC roast; how to take Venture for a ride"
April 21, 2010.
Silobraker covers "VC roast; how to take Venture for a ride"
April 21, 2010.
Bing selects "My advice to VCs" as top shared
April 11, 2010.
Dutch Venturemedia covers "Re-investing in Venture unchanged, is the definition of insanity."
March 27, 2010.
Paper.io covers The Venture Company blog
March 21, 2010.
Steve Woda covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
March 01, 2010.
Chinese Wallstreet site covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
March 01, 2010.
USA Today covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
March 01, 2010.
BusinessWeek covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
March 01, 2010.
The Funded covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 28, 2010.
Japanese Hatena covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 27, 2010.
NPR covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 27, 2010.
WRAL Local Tech Wire covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 27, 2010.
Japanese Wadaino covers "Why VC is such a bad date"
February 27, 2010.
WebPartner covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 27, 2010.
Silobreaker covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 27, 2010.
Silicon Valley Watcher covers "Why VC is such a bad date."
February 27, 2010.
VC Chicago covers "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
February 18, 2010.
IBM highlights "2010: The State of Venture Capital" for employees
February 15, 2010.
PEHub article covers Georges' views on subprime VC
February 08, 2010.
Innovation America covers "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
February 08, 2010.
Venture Capital Report covers "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
February 08, 2010.
Silobraker covers "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
February 08, 2010.
The Funded covers "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
February 07, 2010.
WRAL Local Tech Wire publishes "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
February 05, 2010.
WRAL (CBS Channel 5) Local Tech Wire publishes "How LPs in Venture have been fooled, many times over."
Local Tech Wire, according to their website, delivers the most timely and comprehensive daily report of news and information about the high tech, life sciences, entrepreneurial and venture capital/financing in the Carolinas and Georgia. It reaches more than 100,000 decision makers each month through a comprehensive marketing strategy including online advertising and event sponsorship.
BusinessWeek covers New York, an empire state of mind
January 22, 2010.
Chinese Laoyaoba.com covers Georges
January 22, 2010.
Chinese EDA/IC publication covers Georges
January 21, 2010.
Chinese VC/PE publication covers Georges
January 19, 2010.
EE Times covers LP transparency by Georges
January 12, 2010.
San Jose Mercury News covers Georges views on VC for 2010
January 02, 2010.
Georges is covered in the Silicon Valley premier newspaper the San Jose Mercury News and provides realistic contrast to the "upbeat" VC performance for 2010 (above) after ten years of less than 10% IRR. Georges' quote follows below:
"Deal volume and exits will improve moderately in 2010, yet have little positive effect on overall VC fund returns to Limited Partners. With a VC funding pipe stuffed with sub-prime investments, 2010 returns and deal intake will remain predominantly subprime and continue to contract and lose faith with Limited Partners."
Reuters Venture Capital Journal (VCJ) covers Georges views on VC for 2010
January 02, 2010.
Wopular covers "Why Cash is Not King, but You Are."
December 02, 2009.
Wopular covers "Why Cash is Not King, but You Are."
Wopular is a news aggregation site, giving a summary view of the top headlines from the top news sites. The search box grabs results from the top news, aggregation, blogging, video, and photo sites; it searches sites like CNN, NY Times, Digg, Google News, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia, and many more, all on one site.
The Wall Street Journal covers "Why VC need relevant operating experience".
November 11, 2009.
BusinessWeek covers "Why do we keep listening to VC as the barometer of innovation?"
November 09, 2009.
NPR covers "Why do we keep listening to VC as the barometer of innovation?"
November 09, 2009.
USA Today covers "Why do we keep listening to VC as the barometer of innovation?"
November 09, 2009.
Silicon Valley Watcher covers "Why do we keep listening to VC as the barometer of innovation?"
November 09, 2009.
Newscred covers Georges' opinions
November 07, 2009.
Newscred, is a new digital newspaper that will give you all the world's credible news in one place, covers Georges' stance in an interview with ReadWriteWeb from a few months ago.
The New York Times covers Georges' VC transparency principes
November 05, 2009.
The Wall Street Journal covers "Why do we keep listening to VC as the barometer of innovation?"
November 04, 2009.
BusinessWeek covers "How to fix VC once and for all"
October 19, 2009.
The Lie Politic covers "How to Fix VC once and for all"
October 18, 2009.
"How to fix VC once and for all" is a top story on The Lie Politic.
The Lie Politic is an extension of myrealitytelevision.com, which branched out to cover the election. In the process of covering the election, they stumbled on so many lies on the internet and in the media in general from one-sided outlets that they felt they should expose their lies.
Dutch Erasmus University covers "How to Fix VC once and for all"
October 18, 2009.
One of Holland's top universities, Rotterdam's Erasmus University covers "How to Fix VC once and for all"
USA Today covers "How to fix VC once and for all"
October 13, 2009.
e-Commerce Times covers "How to fix VC once and for all"
October 13, 2009.
e-Commerce Times covers "How to fix VC once and for all".
e-Commerce News is part of the ECT News Network and one of the largest e-business and technology news publishers in the United States. Their network of business and technology news publications attracts a targeted audience of buyers and decision-makers who need timely industry news and reliable analysis.
Y-combinator covers "How to fix VC once and for all"
October 12, 2009.
PEHub covers "How to fix VC once and for all"
October 12, 2009.
Dutch VentureMedia covers "The nitwits on Sand Hill Road"
October 02, 2009.
India's VentureWoods covers "Why VCs need relevant operating experience"
September 28, 2009.
Self-proclaimed India's leading venture capital and startup blog VentureWood covers "Why VCs need relevant operating experience"
India's Startup Central covers "VC performance, a closer look"
September 26, 2009.
Chinese Reach VC covers "How to set and ask for valuations"
September 15, 2009.
Russian technology blogger Ammosov covers "The Economy is not the problem"
September 07, 2009.
Russian technology blogger Ammosov, head of the Russian ministry private-government partnership department covers "The Economy is not the problem"
Research Recap covers "Why innovation needs regulation"
August 25, 2009.
Research Recap covers "Why innovation needs regulation".
Research Recap is designed to showcase compelling industry, economic, academic, market, investment and credit research. The audience includes the investment community and professional services firms, as well as others interested in the types of research we include.
The Wall Street Journal covers "Why innovation needs regulation"
August 21, 2009.
Dutch High Tech Analysis covers Georges
August 20, 2009.
Dubbed "The Fear of Silicon Valley" in Dutch, which we prefer to rephrase to "The Fear of Sub-prime VC" Georges' principles get a first rundown by High Tech Analysis a leading venture magazine from The Netherlands (also available online).
Dutch Automatisering Gids covers "Why innovation needs regulation".
August 16, 2009.
Technorati covers "The Silicon Valley emperor has no clothes"
August 13, 2009.
HP covers "The Silicon Valley emperor has no clothes"
August 11, 2009.
ZDNet covers "The Silicon Valley emperor has no clothes"
August 11, 2009.
eQentia eTechVC covers "The Silicon Valley Emperor has no clothes"
August 11, 2009.
HP's corporate VC group agrees
July 10, 2009.
HP's corporate investment group agrees with our assessment of the VC dynamics. Not unimportant when at some point in time VCs and entrepreneurs wish to sell their company back to HP. One of our first ventures did.
The LipperCurrent covers "The systemic risk of Venture Capital"
June 27, 2009.
The LipperCurrent covers "The systemic risk of Venture Capital". The Lipper Current connects innovators, developers and investors to advance the innovation economy.
Inform syndicates "The systemic risk to Venture Capital".
June 25, 2009.
Inform covers "The systemic risk of Venture Capital." More than 100 leading media properties use Inform's semantic technology to transform their websites.
Reuters PEHub covers "The systemic risk of Venture Capital".
June 25, 2009.
AlwaysOn covers "How LPs should deal with VC"
June 25, 2009.
AlwaysOn covers How LPs should deal with VC.
The AlwaysOn Network is transforming the media business by providing its readers with an open and participatory editorial environment. Borrowing from the underground blogging and social networking traditions, AO was launched in 2003 and has emerged as a leader in the “open media” revolution. The network’s content focuses on the sweet spots in the technology markets where innovation is disrupting behavior and creating new business opportunities.
USA Today covers "How LPs should deal with VC"
June 17, 2009.
Silicon Valley Watcher covers "How LPs should deal with VC"
June 16, 2009.
BusinessWeek covers Georges' interview
June 02, 2009.
The Sacramento Bee covers Georges' interview
May 28, 2009.
NY Times covers Georges' interview
May 28, 2009.
Y combinator covers RWW interview
May 28, 2009.
y-combinator covers Georges' RWW interview. y-combinator is responsible for a lot of visitors paying attention to our website.
Seattle20 covers "Idiot CEOs"
May 25, 2009.
Through the pickup at branding company The Fish Market, Seattle20 covers "Idiot CEOs." Seattle 2.0 was created in 2007 with one goal in mind: To help tech entrepreneurs build great companies.
What makes this different from other sites and blogs is the fact it's written by doers. We are not journalists, reporters or analysts. We are entrepreneurs, investors, advisors, consultants and members of a healthy and ever-growing startup community around Seattle.
Inform covers "The autocompany's plan to fixing VC."
May 22, 2009.
Inform covers "The autocompany's plan to fixing VC." More than 100 leading media properties use Inform's semantic technology to transform their websites.
NY Times covers "The auto company's plan to fixing VC."
May 20, 2009.
USA Today covers "Idiot CEOs."
May 18, 2009.
Israels VC Cafe covers "Idiot CEOs."
May 18, 2009.
Israel's VC Cafe covers "Idiot CEOs." Founded in 2005 by Eze Vidra, VC Cafe (www.vccafe.com) is a leading blog on technology and venture capital, dedicated to obsessively profiling, reviewing and breaking news about new Internet products and companies, venture capital funding and deal flow with a spotlight on Israel, the Silicon Wadi. In addition to covering new companies, VC Cafe organizes the Startup Roundtable series, offline events in San Francisco and Tel Aviv.
Lorenzo like many, gets it
May 15, 2009.
Lorenzo Geraci gets it, yet I have no idea who he is.
And in a true meritocracy that doesn't matter. Lorenzo dissects my "Idiot CEOs" article for what it is: "it paints a very clear analytical picture of what the CEO a typical VC backed company might expect, not always pretty. And while Georges' tone is a bit sarcastic, it is not overly pessimistic, it is pretty real, without fluff, or best case scenario; describing best case scenarios or atypical results was not the intent of the article."
The response to my article has been overwhelmingly positive and we've collected some of the accolades. Somewhat to my surprise a few VCs, who want to be part of the solution have reached out to talk - an effort we applaud.
What I want everyone to understand is that as a successful participant of the innovative ecosystem I am not interested in spinning stories to boost my readership, but I am focused on working to fix the performance of all participants (fund-managers, VCs and entrepreneurs) to ensure the future of technology as a sustainable and high performing asset class.
I spent 10 years building startups before I felt qualified to write about it. That real world experience is the basis for my opinions and blog. Thanks for your feedback.
The Funded covers "Idiot CEOs."
May 13, 2009.
Silobreaker covers "Idiot CEOs."
May 12, 2009.
Silobreaker covers "Idiot CEOs". Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers meaning and relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation engines. Its relational analysis and explanatory graphics provide users with unparalleled contextual insight into the news stories of the day.
Chinese Reach VC covers "The trap of Capital Efficiency. "
April 30, 2009.
A VC revolution in the making highlighted by The Wall Street Journal
April 22, 2009.
The Wall Street Journal covers
Georges' article that appeared in PEHub and originally on
The
Venture Company website. The power of blog
syndication at work, that is, when the content
is apparently worthy.
PEHub covers "A VC revolution in the making."
April 19, 2009.
Chinese Reach VC covers "A VC revolution in the making."
April 19, 2009.
European Cientifica covers "The economy is not the problem, stupid VC."
March 09, 2009.
European Cientifica covers "The economy is not the problem, stupid VC."
Founded in 1997, Cientifica is the world’s leading supplier of nanotechnology information, with activities spanning from basic research, through scientific networks to consultancy, business intelligence and investment appraisals. Cientifica is in constant contact with thousands of scientists, businesses and investors active in the nanotechnology world.
PEHub covers "LP's invested deep not wide in technology."
March 06, 2009.
How to spot subprime VC covered by Reuters' PEHub
January 08, 2009.
The Venture Capital model is not broken, just the majority of operators in it. The same problem as in the home lending markets. Inaccurate calculation of risk and opportunity, deflates innovation rather than boost it.
It is important for our ecosystem and entrepreneurs to not get discouraged, but to understand that not all early stage innovation is built using the artificial world and rule-book many VCs have created around innovation. Large companies like Apple and Google are out-innovating VC portfolio companies left and right, using more realistic strategies that are based on sound business principles and plenty of cash.
We hope articles like these help entrepreneurs avoid wasting time and focus on the right VCs.
BTW: the 24% drop in startup valuation in the accompanying article is the case in point.
Chinese Xiamen-Essex Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning covers "Which investors to avoid."
December 23, 2008.
Indian Startupcentral covers "Which Investors to avoid".
December 22, 2008.
Canadian Venture Capital Association covers "The delicacy of European investments."
May 14, 2008.
Georges' blogs about The delicacy of European investments and 10 Investment lessons learned over 10 years are picked up by the Canadian Venture Capital Association. The CVCA – Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association – represents the majority of private equity companies in Canada, with over 1500 members. CVCA members have over $65 billion in capital under management. The CVCA is a leading source for advocacy, networking, information and professional development for venture capital and private equity professionals.
Imaging Puffer fish picked up by PE Week Wire
January 29, 2008.
On the eve of the purported acquisition of Getty-Images and a reset of Digital Railroad, Georges lays out some of the misconceptions of the photography market, a market not well understood by Wallstreet. It discloses the fundamental flaws in Getty's acquisition strategy of digital assets, and the fleeting issues associated with it. More than 40 investment banks since read this blog carefully.
For more detail, read on at Imaging sales market broken from the top, Image catalogs in peril, Getty Images; the image demi-cartel
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