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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. Venture News.

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ProfessorVC: Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct

Professor VC

Nope, the above quote isnt from Richard Dawson on Family Feud, but similar to a headline that caught my attention on the front page of the business section of the San Jose Mercury News this morning. I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.