I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of  EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with  Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Venture Capital. The country needs to build a deeper Venture Capital industry. MORE >>

We’ve seen some pretty good years recently, with VC funding in Israel reaching an all-time high in 2011 at a record $2.2 Israel Israeli Chief Scientist Israeli Economy Israeli High Tech Chief scientist Israel Israel VC Venture Capital in Israelbillion. [[ This is a content summary only. MORE >>

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites. Twitter. MORE >>

2) With one noticeable exception, governmental entrepreneurship policies and initiatives appear to be less than optimal, with capital deployed inefficiently (read “They would have done better throwing the money in the street.”) Scalable startups are what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their venture investors aspire to build. So What? MORE >>

investing in the US, China, and Israel), but these tend to be limited to a few very large firms. Venture Capital hedging risk vcQuestion: How do VCs mitigate risk in their investment portfolios? Are I’m not aware of VCs using classic financial hedging strategies. This ebbs and flows. MORE >>