http://www.venturemedia.nl Nieuws over venture capital, innovatie Venture capital/Finance/Startups/Funding http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7539.htm Antea Participaties in Den Haag heeft een belang van 45 % genomen in Juicy Details, een retailketen in juice-bars. Achtergrond van de deelname door Antea is een gewenste groeifinanciering voor de verdere uitbouw van deze retailketen in zogenaamde juices en smoothies. Dat zijn drankjes van vers fruit , die vaak geblend worden met toevoegingen als yoghurtijs en natuurlijke voedingssupplementen (boosters). Juicy Details heeft op dit moment twee vestigingen: één op Schiphol en één in Rotterdam Alexandrium, het grootste winkelcentrum in Rotterdam. http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7538.htm Acquisitions are often fantasised about. It seems a quick route to growth and is often used by megalomaniacal mangement to stimulate their own egos. http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7537.htm I always love being in New York and last tuesday I attended theAAAIM2010 Investment Themes event in New York (a fairly closely held affair, thank you Brenda Chai) with a keynote from John Liu, newly appointed New York City comptroller (closely guarded by his security detail) and other luminaries from the New York investment world, including Kelly Williams from Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group, Marcos Rodriguez from Palladium Equity Partners, Jimmy Yan from New York City Employees' Retirement System and Peter Marber from HSBC. http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7536.htm I am close to finishing up a brand new presentation on The State of Venture Capital going into 2010. This presentation contains the new compass for Limited Partners interested to (continue to) invest in Venture Capital. It is written in a language Limited Partners can understand. http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7535.htm And socialism without merit is a lie too, a hollow lie. So do not even try to juxtapose capitalism and socialism here, not the point. Neither is the "rich" man's black-or-white argument that the mere thought of criticizing capitalism defaults into sudden socialism. http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7534.htm People who know me will probably laugh heartily about this blog - but I mean it from the bottom of my heart http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7532.htm I saw an article a few days ago from an enthusiastic young General Partner (GP) declaring that "Venture is Back" and it reminded me how frighteningly naive some people in the venture business are. http://www.venturemedia.nl/Nieuwsberichten/nieuws7531.htm Even though Venture Capital has produced no more than 10% IRR for the last 10 years and has lost the confidence of the public markets (lack of IPOs) and public companies (lack of M&A, except for a few "garage" sales), many entrepreneurs keep chasing the mighty dollar from VCs who will not let entrepreneurs challenge their merit, at all or ever.