Comments on: Three things NOT to do when you are pitching me

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By: Be Prepared | Mendelson's Musings

Be Prepared | Mendelson's Musings — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:34:30 +0000

[...] wrote previously about three things to not do if you are pitching me, which dealt with poor preparation in pitching. Today’s post is directed toward folks whom [...]

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By: Brett Commaille

Brett Commaille — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:38:53 +0000

The funny thing is Spencer, many of us in VC are in this because we love helping and watching businesses grow. A VC is a business where you raise funds, invest in a product and build it for a return. A business just like any other, requiring entrepreneurship just like any other business.
You clearly seem to have had an experience with VC which left you less than charmed with the industry, but not all lawyers are evil, not all plumbers show their cracks and not all VC are here to rip hour heart out and drink your blood.
Some of us actually have a great relationship with the investee companies and they actually get value from their VC.
Of course, if it doesn't work for you, then don't bother with VC funding.

By: Jason Mendelson

Jason Mendelson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:11:06 +0000

Perhaps you should read the comment section where I address your ego concerns. As far as 98% of VCs being like this, I’d say I’d agree with you that there are a lot of folks out there like this, but I’d like to think that my firm and myself don’t act like that and certainly I have no clue what HBS stands for. I’m a public school rat and wouldn’t last a week in bschool.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:55:59 +0000

"No, this isn’t an ego thing. (Okay, maybe a little)…"

Now THAT is funny! It's all ego, otherwise you would have NEVER written it. How completely unaware! Part of the problem with most (ALL) VC's is their hyper inflated personal value metric. It appears this curve is still trending positive.

"Listen" Opps…there it is again! LMBFAO…

#2 – Duhhh.

The bottom line for 98.483428% of VC's?
They are not particularly smart.
They are not entrepreneurs or they would be….entrepreneurs.
They are particularly insecure about themselves and have a high need for recognition to compensate.
They are 'clubby'…? do the letters HBS mean anything? ok..next.
They follow the herd.
They are not business builders or …they would be building business!
They are money handlers looking to place a bet and create an exit. They are not altruistic so exiting is the only objective…as it's the ONLY way THEY will get paid.

Their success rate is not much better than throwing darts. At least that is the analysis of every data wonk who's broken the performance numbers down in a statistical analysis.

for the balance of VC's, that miniscule 1.51.6572%, they provide value beyond entrepreneur funding and startup working capital.

$0.02

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Gabriel Gunderson — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:35:34 +0000

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By: Jason Mendelson

Jason Mendelson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:15:08 +0000

You are a good mentor. This is a great way of rephrasing and also a good point. I don’t walk into a meeting not knowing about who I speaking with regardless if I asked for the meeting or they did.