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Top NY Venture Capitalist Calls for New Path to Cash
Posted Apr 11, 2008 01:59pm EDT by Aaron Task in Newsmakers, Venture Capital, M and A, IPOsAfter funding properties like Twitter, Tumblr, del.icio.us, FeedBurner, and many more, it's no wonder Fred Wilson has been called "the most influential digital-business financier in New York."
Thus when Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures, recently mused on his similarly lauded blog about the need for "a new path to liquidity" for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, informed people took notice.
Here, Wilson goes into further detail about the concept of a private market for pre-public companies. He believes such a market -- already emerging -- will make for more efficient capital markets and help VCs with that pesky problem of having too much money.
9 Comments
julio c - Friday April 11, 2008 04:24PM EDT
that's right bob. I still remember how some of those companies started without a clear business model but got people's synergy and that made them big businesses. I bet you 1 pound that this guy is working in an upcoming website where VCs can come and find projects needed of money. oky doky time to return to my business bye
xkrebstarx - Friday April 11, 2008 08:48PM EDT
Start-ups are like underwear; Everybody has a pair and they all stink.
kostam - Friday April 11, 2008 09:37PM EDT
U all looking at the problem & not the reward. Poverty consciousness at it's finest. Only the few make it because these few look at the pottential & final goal not the hurdles or what people say. The broke become more broke. Wake up!
GERARD - Saturday April 12, 2008 08:14AM EDT
"Sophisticated investors" the pro's my arse these are the same idiots who created the mess we are in not mom and pop investors. What an arrogant jerk. The rich get richer and the rest of us remain where we are at or get poor that's the bottom line . We need the SEC to do their job but that's kind of like wishing santa clause would start crapping easter eggs.
Big Harrry Stick - Sunday April 13, 2008 11:51PM EDT
These people are super idiots/dreames if they think they will create an exchange like market for private interests... it is just buyers club you can join, someone needs to set up as a broker of business interests and market the company that is footing the bill (or the third party interest that is footing the bill). It is essntialy a membership only website idea. Anythng more is already called the pink sheets. P.S good long position in gold silver targets being drilled now by Yale Resources, only 7M market cap and news pending that is prefaced here... http://miningmarketwatch.net/yale.htm It is worth the read imo.
Miley - Saturday April 12, 2008 07:39PM EDT
hey an we talk about somting else?ok lets talk abot our kds if we have any
Yahoo! Finance User - Monday April 14, 2008 01:05AM EDT
Sorry! It just seems yet another VC trying to offload some of its own illiquid assets by pumping yet another ponzi scheme.
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__A_YAHOO_USER__ - Friday April 11, 2008 03:46PM EDT
"Sophisticated Venture Capital".....yeah right......most of these guys invest a little in lots of companies and hope one hits paydirt...in the meantime, most of these PV guys have no clue on how to actuallly run a company..they have lots of thoughts and lots of cash....usually not thier own.