http://venturecompany.com/index.htmlInnovation EconomistenThe Venture Company | venturecompany.com© Copyright 1998-2012 The Venture Company2012-05-08T20:44:23-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:13:52 -0400The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2012-05-08T20:44:23-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/pehub_vc_is_enemy.html#unique-entry-id-213http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/pehub_vc_is_enemy.html#unique-entry-id-213

Reuters PE Hub covers “Venture Capital: the enemy is us”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2012-05-07T16:01:46-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/subscribe_new.html#unique-entry-id-212http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/subscribe_new.html#unique-entry-id-212

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]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2012-03-30T18:54:09-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/wsj_jobs_snobs.html#unique-entry-id-211http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/wsj_jobs_snobs.html#unique-entry-id-211

The Wall Street Journal covers "The Jobs snobs”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2012-03-27T08:15:04-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc_11k.html#unique-entry-id-210http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc_11k.html#unique-entry-id-210
The State of Venture Capital, now available in video and narrated by Georges van Hoegaerden has been viewed 11,000 times, and sails by another milestone as the most preeminent presentation on the state of the arbitrage of innovation.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2012-03-26T22:16:35-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/portfolio_delusion.html#unique-entry-id-209http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/portfolio_delusion.html#unique-entry-id-209

Portfolio covers "The most delusional man in Venture Capital”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-11-07T15:03:45-05:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/forbes_pancake.html#unique-entry-id-208http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/forbes_pancake.html#unique-entry-id-208

Forbes covers "Pancake Economics”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2012-02-11T10:42:26-05:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/feedburner_changed.html#unique-entry-id-207http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/feedburner_changed.html#unique-entry-id-207
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Or, simply press the (updated) RSS button atop any of our blogs to re-subscribe to the new one. ]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2012-02-09T09:03:59-05:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/new_phone.html#unique-entry-id-206http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/new_phone.html#unique-entry-id-206
]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2012-01-26T10:51:23-05:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc_10k.html#unique-entry-id-205http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc_10k.html#unique-entry-id-205
Lauded by many as the great guide for wisdom in “the industry”, The State of Venture Capital by The Venture Company has just surpassed 10,000 viewers. An impressive milestone considering the only marketing it received is the merit of its content.

The purpose of the presentation is to shed light on what prevents us from reaching maximum potential in the support for groundbreaking innovation. Because if we fix where we systemically fail we will regain access to an 80% adoption greenfield that will drive massive stimulus through our interconnected and global economy.

We have developed the framework for a more sustainable economy, our financial systems and Venture Capital that changes everything from the top, economics reinvented. It is not another plan to artificially adjust advantage or disadvantage at the bottom of the economic food chain. But a righteous way of dynamically and authentically balancing the merit of production and finance.

I urge you to review the presentation to avoid the instant death traps in the current model and ask questions through our comments system attached to the bottom of every blog or contact us via the contact form. Venture Capital the way it is deployed en-masse today can by economic principle never scale to meet the opportunity of the greenfield that lies ahead. That will become clear when you study our presentation.

We are honored to receive such positive responses to the cure that awaits, yet wish it never had to get this far:

"Fred Wilson and Tim Draper used to be guiding lights within the industry. Georges, you've cut the legs out from under it, and replaced the gas lamp with neodymium-focused xenon torch." - CEO


]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2012-01-13T11:03:57-05:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/open_office.html#unique-entry-id-204http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/open_office.html#unique-entry-id-204
Ready for a mental workout perhaps combined with some physical exercise? Then join Georges friday mornings between 8 and 10 am (*) at the gym of the Claremont community in Chapel Hill for an informal workout about economics, capital and innovation. We invite limited partners, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to freely discuss startups, venture capital, the american economy or everything in-between.

See here why you would want to talk with Georges.

(*) For exact timing and availability (due to travel) be sure to fill in the contact form provided here and select Open Office with a date of the friday you would like to come in. Georges looks forward to “working out” with you. The exact location can be found on Google maps by clicking here.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-08T03:30:48-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/matr_wrong.html#unique-entry-id-203http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/matr_wrong.html#unique-entry-id-203
Montana Associated Technology Roundtable covers "How Steve Jobs proved Venture Capital wrong"]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2011-12-01T15:27:15-05:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/addthis_added.html#unique-entry-id-202http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/addthis_added.html#unique-entry-id-202

Share the love for a renewable opportunity for innovation. As of today we have added new sharing options to our blogs and news articles using the AddThis service. Now articles can immediately be shared with people on the following social services:

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or distributed in one-go through your own set of favorite networks using ping.fm

Access to more than 355 other services supported by AddThis, including print and e-mail distribution is available as well. ]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-24T10:47:25-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/fortune_meeker.html#unique-entry-id-201http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/fortune_meeker.html#unique-entry-id-201
Fortune Magazine’s Term Sheet covers "The meager role of Meeker"]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2011-10-09T15:14:43-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc9K.html#unique-entry-id-200http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc9K.html#unique-entry-id-200Our 2010: The State of Venture Capital presentation (abbreviated as SOVC) published last year has been viewed more than 9,000 times.

Easily the most viewed presentation on the state of Venture Capital it highlights how not innovation is broken, but the arbitrage deployed by Venture Capital. And that means there is hope, since when we fix Venture Capital the quality of innovation intake will improve and thus the returns for Limited Partners.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-07T15:19:05-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/vw_steve.html#unique-entry-id-199http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/vw_steve.html#unique-entry-id-199

Dow Jones VentureWire covers "How Steve Jobs proved Venture Capital wrong”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-07T10:14:02-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/portfolio_steve.html#unique-entry-id-198http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/portfolio_steve.html#unique-entry-id-198

Business journal Portfolio, a biz journals property and partner of Condé Naste Digital, covers "How Steve Jobs proved Venture Capital wrong”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-07T09:14:34-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/alt_steve.html#unique-entry-id-197http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/alt_steve.html#unique-entry-id-197

Private equity publication AltAssets covers "How Steve Jobs proved Venture Capital wrong”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-06T12:42:49-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/wsj_steve.html#unique-entry-id-196http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/wsj_steve.html#unique-entry-id-196

The Wall Street Journal covers "How Steve Jobs proved Venture Capital wrong"]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-10-06T10:00:52-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/ibt_steve.html#unique-entry-id-195http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/ibt_steve.html#unique-entry-id-195

International Business Times covers "How Steve Jobs proved Venture Capital wrong"]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comInterview2011-09-15T08:48:18-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/int_innovation_capital.html#unique-entry-id-194http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/int_innovation_capital.html#unique-entry-id-194
Georges’ interview on Innovation and Venture Capital with Bob Jordan from How They Did It is now prominently posted on the about Georges page and from a direct link from our home page. ]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-08-29T19:34:20-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/y_fake.html#unique-entry-id-0http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/y_fake.html#unique-entry-id-0
Y-combinator covers "Fake tits and money”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2011-08-27T10:33:20-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/tvc_website_eco.html#unique-entry-id-1http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/tvc_website_eco.html#unique-entry-id-1
The Venture Company website has gone through major repositioning and reconstruction to reflect our work across all aspects of the innovation’s business. All of our blog articles have been re-categorized by topic:

• Limited Partners topics are covered in the ECONOMICS blog
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Please redirect your direct references to the articles in this blog as it will no longer be updated and cease to exist, including the RSS feeds to the articles. For reasons of future change it is a good idea to connect to us via Twitter and Facebook, so upcoming changes will no longer affect you.

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The old blog, rev and intercept pages will no longer be updated and cease to exist. Do not link to them anymore. Feel free to send us a message if you are looking for information that is no longer there. ]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-08-04T13:13:22-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/y_we_fail.html#unique-entry-id-2http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/y_we_fail.html#unique-entry-id-2
Y-combinator covers "We fail because we lie"]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comPress clippings2011-08-03T19:28:35-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/pehub_becuse_we_lie.html#unique-entry-id-3http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/pehub_becuse_we_lie.html#unique-entry-id-3
Reuters PEHub covers "We fail because we lie”.]]>The Venture Company | venturecompany.comAnnouncement2011-07-27T10:33:57-04:00http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc_8000.html#unique-entry-id-4http://venturecompany.com/news/index_files/sovc_8000.html#unique-entry-id-4Our 2010: The State of Venture Capital presentation (abbreviated as SOVC) published last year and for all to see online has been viewed more than 8,000 times. Easily the most viewed presentation on Venture Capital it highlights how not innovation is broken, but the arbitrage deployed by Venture Capital. And that means there is hope, since when we fix Venture Capital the quality of innovation will improve as well as the returns for Limited Partners. But it may hurt the Venture Capitalists that deploy none of their own assets, oh well. ]]>