Aside from being a curious profession, venture capital has many different dimensions and perspectives. David Hornik, from August Capital, highlights some of the basics of venture capital, how he sees the field developing in the future and how the players have to work together, to ensure the best value for the entrepreneurs. David also describes what sort of information he values and if he could, what he would like to track more than anything else.
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Here are some quotes from the episode:
I think that the venture business has grown to a size that doesn’t make sense.
[On Angelgate:] Who knows what actually took place? I will say this, because I think that people are very quick to throw Mike Arrington off the bus, or under the bus, or somewhere on the bus…
But I think ultimately it is in everybody’s interest to have well-informed entrepreneurs as well as well-informed venture investors and for people to go in eyes wide open.
What really matters is who are you working with, what are they like to work with, how has it gone in the past for other people and is this someone that you want to spend the next,let’s say, ten to twelve years of your life with?
If I could have a dashboard that tracked, you know, the people that other people I respect were excited about, that would be the thing that would be most interesting to me.
