Investors include SV Angel, Lower Case Ventures, Betaworks, David Tisch, Dave Morin with Slow Ventures, CrunchFund (disclosure: CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington previously founded TechCrunch), Pete Cashmore, Lady Gaga ex-manager Troy Carter, and Chris Howard.
In some cases, venture capitalists have received death threats from online criminals.
In some cases, venture capitalists must now put additional money into companies in their portfolios that would normally have gone public by now, leaving less for new companies.
In many cases, venture capital probably is the wrong funding tool — something like Kickstarter is a better fit.
In some cases, venture capital firms have been quite opportunistic to buy and sell shares of larger web companies in a short period of time, making a quick flip and marketing to the world that they, too, have invested in a particular company.
So who would use a service like this? Bizly says that they've seen a ton of uses cases — venture capitalists needing a nice meeting space, startups that have overgrown their offices and need to hold an all-hands meeting and even corporate clients who need a reliable place to hold meetings when out of town.
And in some cases venture-capital funds will follow rather than create innovation.
Mr. Miller was criticized in Iowa and elsewhere for his involvement in the Microsoft and tobacco cases; the critics said these cases ventured far afield into areas where his state did not seem to have a big stake.
It took a long time for a taikonaut to join the list of cosmonauts and astronauts who have gone into orbit around Earth and (in a few cases) ventured beyond that, to the Moon.
The receiver's obligation is to the creditors — in this case, the venture debt provider — not to the venture capital equity investors.
To make their case, some venture firms are showering their investors with data and attention.
