The Truth About Venture Capitalists

[mandy]

3-part article from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen:

A lot of people have opinions about venture capital -- the pros and cons of VC, whether or not to take VC, which venture capitalists to take money from, how to get VCs to invest in your company, whether VCs are seasoned risk-taking professional investors or psychotic entrepreneur-hating sociopaths, etc.

Often these opinions are based on one individual's specific personal experience with venture capital, and often based on someone's negative experience -- as is often the case, people who have negative experiences are more motivated to tell others than people who have positive experiences.

With that in mind, I will try to provide my hopefully broad perspective on the topic...

part 1: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_truth_about.html
part 2: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_truth_about_1.html
part 3: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_truth_about_2.html