In the Company of Venture Capital

People have different definitions of “startup” and “venture capital,” and it’s that foundation that causes frustrations and misplaced expectations.

What Frustrations in Venture Capital?

• The real reason founders are not funded VCs don’t say in a pitch process
• Why Venture Capitalists Aren’t Funding The Businesses We Need
• VCs like to take their time with their decisions because it’s a good idea to do so
• Why don’t more VCs care about good tech?

I ran a quick query on my favorite Q&A site, Quora, and found a litany of similar questions:

• Why don’t investors fund more movies?
• Why don’t VCs fund traditional profit making businesses in India to help them scale up?
• Do VCs fund nonprofits? If not, how else could they get funded from private investors?

The gist of the theme we’re seeing is that people are disappointed that VCs aren’t interested in their thing. And that’s spurring disdain toward, and misconceptions about, Venture Capital; aggravation that we might explore a bit more, to help alleviate and better direct everyone’s focus toward meaningful connections.