by Jason Mendelson February 15, 2007

Do Venture Capitalist Care About Immigration Laws?

Question: What’s the position of the VC community in general (and yours in particular) with regards to startups with non-resident alien founders having no work permits in the US, but having valid business visas to enter US at any time? Our Take: We can’t speak for the entire VC community on this topic (but would […]

Question: What’s the position of the VC community in general (and yours in particular) with regards to startups with non-resident alien founders having no work permits in the US, but having valid business visas to enter US at any time?

Our Take: We can’t speak for the entire VC community on this topic (but would guess it would be the same as ours), but investing in startup companies is risky enough without the specter of the INS or Homeland Security involved due to questionable immigration situations.

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January 11, 2007

Are There Any VCs Running Their Firms as a Web 2.0 Business?

Question: Are you aware of any companies or sites that are applying a Web 2.0 approach to Venture Capital? I am envisioning some kind of online war-room with a structured system for inputting data, an RSS feed, an auction type method for VCs to bid on projects, etc. Our Take: While technology VCs make their […]

September 10, 2007

Why Are Venture Capitalists So Hard To Deal With?

One of the questions that we get most often is “why are VCs such jerks?” or some sort of derivation thereof. Specifically, people complain about: – VCs not returning calls / being unresponsive – VCs not understanding how good of an investment my company is – VCs stringing along entrepreneurs when they know they aren’t […]

January 24, 2007

I Was “De-VC’d” What Do I Do Now?

Question: I was deVCeed. My VC just one day said that he does not want to do it anymore and wants me to pay back investment that they made. That’s it? Our Take: Ouch. Something here isn’t right; start up investments are not like banks. We can’t invest in you one day, get tired and […]

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