VCs are too slow and entrepreneurs are questioning what value they actually add
“And there's a few drivers of that is that entrepreneurs find venture capital in the process of raising it to be process driven, to be political, to be slow.”
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six to nine months. And there's a few drivers of that is that entrepreneurs find venture capital in the process of raising it to be process driven, to be political, to be slow. They generally perceive the investor base to, slightly move at one. So you have capital concentration into specific areas where there's excitement, where maybe there's FOMO and that leaves a huge amount of entrepreneurs being overlooked. And I think importantly, they're really calling into question what VC value add actually is. Like, what is our product? What is our service provision
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Matt Chandler from Octopus Ventures discusses why fundraising takes 6-9 months and the core problems entrepreneurs have with VCs. He explains how capital concentration and FOMO leave many founders overlooked, while entrepreneurs increasingly question what actual value venture capitalists provide beyond money.
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A VC candidly admits the industry's fundamental flaws from the entrepreneur's perspective, offering rare self-criticism about process inefficiencies and questioning their own value proposition.
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