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作者：天蝎座的 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
现在是做entreprenuer的好时候，因为evaluation高。
美女还有个经典说法。
一次她“抱怨”，一个fund的committment就是5年，美国大多数婚姻也就维持两年---- “真比找老公还serious". 他们公司的GP（general partner,也是个女的）补充说：”你还是partner，你看我做 gp，要管manage现在的fund，要愁raise下一个fund，前面一个fund还得瞅着--这一下就是15年！女人一辈子也就这样了。。“
我和美女笑得花枝乱战。。。
最近圣荷西水星报得一篇文章证明了美女的说法
Venture capitalists switch to startups
MANY ARE SURPRISED BY TYPE OF WORK
By Constance Loizos
Mercury News
In the pecking order of Silicon Valley, you can't do much better than the clubby world of venture capital. High pay, intellectual stimulation, prestige and even, for some, fame. What's not to like?
Yet VCs do leave the industry, sometimes over personality conflicts or power struggles or unraveling firms. In a newer twist, they are also leaving to become entrepreneurs themselves, lured by ever-cheaper startup costs and investors' continued fascination with Web properties.
``Some people who came into the venture business between 1999 and today have observed that no one has made any money, unless you happen to have invested in Google and YouTube,'' said Jon Holman, a venture capital recruiter in San Francisco who works closely with more than 50 firms, including Mayfield Fund and Accel Partners. ``Those same people are now saying, `Maybe this will get better, but it may be time to try something else instead.'''
Vikram Kashyap was a junior venture capitalist at Battery Ventures on Sand Hill Road from 1998 until 2001, but because he was hired out of Harvard, Kashyap had little operating experience. ``I thought, to really be world class in this industry, it's not going to work for me to build my way up from the bottom.''
Two years ago, Kashyap founded San Francisco-ba<x>sed Canopy Financial, which aims to move the payment process between consumers and their healthcare providers online and is backed by $2 million from wealthy individuals.
Kashyap says that while he would ``never say never'' to another VC job, he has found greater satisfaction in heading a company.
Others admit that they would happily return to their old line of work for the right opportunity.
``I could definitely see myself becoming a VC again,'' said Touraj Parang, a venture capitalist-turned-founder of year-old Jaxtr in downtown Palo Alto, whose service combines a social-networking application with an easier way to call friends over cell phones.
Still, becoming an entrepreneur is harder than many expected, despite their experience with young companies. ``I had no idea of the number of details that I'd have to deal with every day,'' said Doug Valenti, a former venture capitalist with Rosewood Capital in San Francisco who founded seven-year-old QuinStreet, an online marketing company. ``From what kinds of chairs do you order to how do you get the rooms wired to how do you ensure your compensation plan is comparable to other companies, it's an endless list.''
Some VCs-turned-entrepreneurs also face lower pay, longer hours, and frankly, mundaneness. ``Founding a company can be less stimulating than venture capital in that you're exposed to less new ideas and instead thinking much more about a particular market and a particular set of products,'' said Kashyap, who said he took a ``big salary cut'' but that his company has had some profitable quarters and is closing another round of financing.
Then there are the surprisingly personal ways in which leaving venture capital impacts some individuals. Tony Conrad, who founded the blog-search technology company Sphere in San Francisco half a year before his former venture firm, VSP Capital, imploded, said that ``for months after starting Sphere, I'd still tell people that I was a VC. I think I was in denial,'' he added, laughing.
Even loved ones can become attached to the role. ``Striking out on my own actually ended a relationship with someone,'' said another VC-turned entrepreneur, who earlier this year launched an online advertising network and asked not to be named. ``You'd have thought I was opening a lemonade stand.''
That's saying nothing of the considerably greater risk involved in founding a company. VCs have the luxury of piecing together diverse portfolios with the money of institutional investors. Entrepreneurs, even well-funded ones, are betting on one horse.
Still, VCs also enjoy many benefits as entrepreneurs, having sat on the opposite side of the table.
Two meaningful advantages are their networks and know-how. For example, said Valenti, ``thereare many ways to screw up fundraising.'' He claims he avoided them all by knowing which investors to call and which to avoid.
More, QuinStreet -- which Valenti said is profitable after raising nearly $60 million in venture capital in its first four years -- sewed up its financing on ``terms that some entrepreneurs wouldn't see as important at the time but that I knew would be.''
However, the biggest plus, say these Web entrepreneurs -- each of whom hopes as much as the next company founder to strike it rich -- is knowing what they'll do differently if they return to venture capital. ``I used to sit and nod and think I could fake my way through another meeting with someone,'' said the founder of the online advertising startup. ``As an entrepreneur, I now see you can instantly recognize who doesn't get it, or care.''
Conrad, who has raised $4 million for Sphere and whose investors include Kevin Compton and Doug MacKenzie of Kleiner Perkins, said he'll be more sensitive.
``I think they're will be a place and time when I'll be a VC again, and I'll remember the clueless things I did before,'' including asking a struggling entrepreneur to meet him at his expensive hotel during a cross-country trip, rather than drive to the startup.
``You don't have to be in the trenches with them, but a lot of entrepreneurs resent VCs because they think they're disconnected from reality. Now, I see why.''
作者：天蝎座的 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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