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The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists

Filed in archive Venture Capital on January 8, 2006

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Guy Kawasaki has found the time to come up with his Personal Top 10:

""Show us some traction, and we'll invest." In other words, "no." This lie translates to "I don't believe your story, but if you can prove it by achieving significant revenue, then you might convince me. However, I don't want to tell you 'no' because I might be wrong and by golly you may sign up a Fortune 500 customer and then I'd look like a total orifice."

We can open up doors for you at our client companies." This is a double whammy of lie. First, a venture capitalist can't always open up doors at client companies. Frankly, he might be hated by the client company. The worst thing in the world may be a referral from him. Second, even if the venture capitalist can open the door, entrepreneurs can't seriously expect the company to commit to your product--that is, something that isn't much more than a slick (10/20/30) PowerPoint presentation."
Guy is the guy - I had great joy to read through.

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