Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption
Asking friends what would kill their firms, I heard; Performance. Succession planning. Politics. There was plenty of overlap in their answers. What stuck out to me the most was how a lot of these fears closely aligned with the revolutions already going on in venture that I've been writing about. The productization and improvement in a venture funds... See more
Kyle Harrison • The Death of a Venture Fund
Why VC May Be Poorly Positioned for the Coming Decade, a Technology-First Analysis
Jack Mastrangelomedium.com
VCs are similarly disinterested in growing modest, sustainable businesses. In fact, a company that grows a healthy 5% a year is in some ways worse for a VC than a company that simply implodes on a moonshot. VCs have derogatory names for these otherwise seemingly healthy businesses: the walking dead, or worse yet, lifestyle businesses (when you say
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