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Dilly Dally Dalio

The Inconvenient Truth About Inflation

How To Regulate Private Companies To Protect The Public

PGGM’s Piet Klop Pension Strategy Klopt Niet

Define Success

Venture Fund Size

ESG Is A Whirligig, A Frenzy, A Marketing Mania

ESG Demonstrates Finance Cannot Be The Author Of Its Reinvention

Bitcoin Trust Drops 50%

Fink Tank

Larry Fink’s Inkling

Crypto Is Illegal, Stupid, Solipsistic, And Damaging To Humanity

Sustainability Is The Ideology Of A Cancer Cell

Governments Do Not Set Goals

Bitcoin Is Worthless, Says Dimon

ESG Programs Fall Short

ESG’s Problem Is Not Communication, But Adherence To Nature

Robinhood on ESG

Cryptocurrency Pantomime

Breaking Down E, S, G in ESG

Is Early Stage Risk Compatible With SDG Investing?

Crypto Threatens National Security And Human Evolution

More Sustainable Is Not More Renewable

The System Is Broken, Says Dalio

Human Foresight Is Nature’s Hindsight

Crypto As An Asset Allocator, Hilarious And Dangerous

The Periodic Table Of Asset Risk

The Instability Of Ambiguity

The Empty Sack Of VC Arbitrage

Ask Yourself This Crucial Question About ESG

Warren Buffet Does Not Understand The Stock Market

ESG Is Irresponsible. In Need Of Replacement, Not Improvement

UBS Economics

Bitcoin Is Like Postage-Stamp-Collecting On Steroids

Money Is A Valuation Not A Value Of Humanity

Who Cares About ESG?

What Could Possibly Go Wrong When Nothing In The Universe But Finance Revolves Around...

Top1000 Funds Fiduciary

Capitalize On Nature

Foundational Depravity

Venture Pitch Deck Review

Hotel CalPERS

COVID-19 And The Impact On Financial Systems

Accelerating Infinite Regression In Asset Management

Family Offices Are Tired Of Conferences – Something Else Is Needed

Friend Or Foe Of Private Equity

On Transparency In Finance

The Private Equity Malaise

I Was 10 Years Ahead…Or More Alarmingly, The Greater-Fools Were 10 Years Behind

Why ESG Is A Dangerous Religion

I Am Insulted By The Lack Of Impact From A Chief Impact Officer

Europe Falls For ESG And Its Idiocracy

The Burden Of Evolutionary Proof Belongs To ESG

The Entropy Of Sustainable Finance

The New Job Of Finance

The Need For Greed

I Declare War On Sustainability

The Antidote To ESG’s Environmental Snake-Oil Is Here

The Purpose Of Money

SEC’s Scarlet Letter About ESG, And Why Finance Must Improve Its Methods and Facts

Why The Stock Markets Are Really Shrinking

Sustainability Is Unsustainable

Finance Has Many New Rivers To Cross To Lend Positive Impact To Humanity

Your Beliefs Do Not Matter

New Impact For Responsible Investing

Why ESG Is Unsustainable

Anti ESG

Unpacking ESG

ESG Idiocracy On Display

What Can Private Equity Do Better?

Alpha Is An Unstoppable Force Of Nature

Private Equity Done Right; KKR Industrial Group, Pete Stavros

CalPERS Needs A New Masterplan

How To Deal With Venture

Why All Financial Systems Run Out Of Steam

My Vote On The Current CalPERS Private Equity Proposal

CalPERS On Private Equity Transparency

Evolutionary Principles Breathe New Life Into Asset Management

Finance Must Abide By Nature

Breaking Down And Recalibrating Alpha

What Are Your Views On Modern Monetary Theory?

CalPERS Private-Equity Make-Over

What Is A System?

Why ESG Will Fail Us, Spectacularly

Asset Management Reinvented

How Fractal Finance Obliterates Economics

Rethink Asset Management

Tesla Wanting To Go Private Is A Sign Of The Lack Of Innovation In...

Craig Venter Agrees With Our Stance On Venture

The ESG Placebo

What Are Signs That An Asset Class Is In A Bubble?

Re-Risk Asset Management

The Failure Rate In A Startup Seems Extremely High. What Can VC Do Differently...

Is SoftBank’s Vision Fund The “Most Powerful Investor In The World”?

Would A Data Scientist Make A Good Venture Capitalist?

Are There Any Venture Capitalists Or Types Of Investors Who Throw Some Money At...

CalPERS Direct, My Opinion On The Announcement

What Things Should A Person Know To Be A VC?

What Are The “Best” Things VCs Do?

What Is The Future Of The Global Financial System?

What Are Your Thoughts On Venture Capital?

How Does One Become A Successful Venture Capitalist If They Already Have Money To...

VC False Positive: CoolIris

VC False Positive: Lytro Is Shutting Down

How Can A Company With High Revenue Have A Low Market Cap?

Do VCs Like Their Job? I’ve Seen Many Entrepreneurs Move To VC After Their...

If I Would Like To Start A Venture Capital Firm, What Are The Key...

What Is The Difference Between Private Equity, Angel Investors, And Venture Capitalists?

What’s A Better Way To Structure A VC fund, Evergreen Or Regular VC?

What Is The Difference In Calculation For A Stock Market Cap And A Cryptocurrency...

What Led You To Become An Angel/VC?

Why Doesn’t Everybody Become A Venture Capitalist Since You Get Paid Well And Don’t...

As A Startup Investor, What Do I Need To See In A Startup Idea...

Does Increasing Interest In Cryptocurrencies And Decentralized Systems Reflect The Anger Against The Present...

A Cryptocurrency Is Like A Religion, Not Becoming More True Just Because You Can...

Can Limited Partners See The Pipeline Of VC Funds And Rejected Projects?

Is Cryptocurrency An Economic Bubble Like The Dot-Com Boom?

Is The Cryptocurrency Bubble Going To Burst?

Do Any Services Exist That Specifically Perform Due Diligence And Verify Claims Made By...

I Have Never Heard Anyone Call The Difference Between Private Equity And Venture Capital...

Buyout Firms Crave Buffett-Like Long Game That Remains Elusive

TechCrunch:Toxic VC and the marginal-dollar problem

Trust As A Currency Is Best Not Evenly Distributed

What Does A Stock’s Negative Growth Rate Imply?

What Is The Difference Between Private Equity And Venture Capital?

What Are Some Of The Biggest Challenges Faced By Asset Managers To Construct A...

How Do Venture Capitalists Find Companies To Fund?

Can An Individual Start A Venture Capital Fund?

Most Of My Tech Stocks Have Gone Up By 50%-150% In The Past Six...

I Do Not Understand The VC And Investment Side Of Business. Does That Mean...

Are Venture Capitalists Dying For A Good Deal As Much As Enthusiastic Entrepreneurs Are...

What Are The Different Ways To Enter Venture Capitalism?

If Today You Were To Enter The Venture Capital Industry, Would You Go For...

Why Would You Not Work In A Traditional VC Fund (Anymore)?

What Are Some Lies VCs And Angel Investors Tell Themselves?

How can foreign VCs seek projects in Silicon Valley?

Is There An Opportunity To Help Large Companies Establish Corporate Venture Arms?

Do VC’s Have A Need For A Self-Promotion (By Self-Promotion I Mean Publishing Their...

Innovation Is Not A Capital Crapshoot

How Specific Or Flexible Is A VC Portfolio?

What Percentage Of Ideas Submitted To Venture Capitalists Are Rubbish?

How Is Investing In Early Tech Companies “More Art Than Science”?

What is the future of Bitcoin in 2017 in Canada?

What Venture Capital And PE Funds Invest In The Restaurant And Hospitality Industries?

Why Do Venture Capitalists Replace Founders Of Startups?

What Are Common Mistakes Investors (VCs, Angels, Etc.) Make?

Why Is Capitalism Said To Be Amoral?

What Are The Demerits Of capitalism?

What Is The Real Cost Of Money?

What Skills Does One Need To Become A Good VC?

What Does The VC Industry Do Badly?

What Does A Venture Capital Scout Do The Whole Day?

Is There A Template Or Sample Contract For Venture Partners For A VC Fund?

If Any, What Alternative Systems Do Anti-Capitalists Defend?

Is The Economic Prosperity Of A Country Linked With A Higher Level Of Happiness?

Is capitalism a means to an end?

I Want To Start A Venture Capital Fund That Backs The Most Talented University...

How Is Private Equity Different From Venture Capital?

Is Dave McClure Correct When He Says “Most Venture Capitalists Are Lazy And Not...

Has Modern Capitalism Morphed Into A Flawed Economic Religion?

Which Challenges Do VC Funds As An Industry Face?

What Should I Start Studying Now To Become A VC?

Does Capitalism Motivate Productivity?

CalPERS Mulls Ending Tobacco Investment Ban

Can You Be A Capitalist And Be True To Oneself?

Will Bitcoin Ever Go Mainstream?

Capitalism Is Eating Freedom

Will Technology Disrupt Capitalism?

Is Data About A Nation’s Economy Still Valuable For Investors?

What Are The Most Common Mistakes Made By Venture Capitalists?

What Percentile VC Firm Is Storm Ventures?

If The Average Venture Fund Loses Money In Aggregate, Then Why Do So Many...

The Antithesis Of Capitalism Is Capitalism

Is High-Frequency Trading Good For The Economy?

Markets Are Man-Made Dogmas Of False Truism

Price Loses Its Value When Money Loses Its Trust

CalPERS Pre-empts Asset Allocation

The Fix To Improving Asset Management Returns Lies In The Reinvention Of The Fundamentals...

CalPERS Change, A New Schtick Or A New Stick?

The Appetite For Risk – Not Money – Determines What Innovation Can Be...

Losing VC Money Is Not Our Biggest Problem

Triple Threat Founders

Has Venture Capital Changed?

Data Leads To Depravity

The Double Entendre of Silicon Valley Tourism

One Must Fiercely Question The Role And Value Of Financial Arbitrage Related To Our...

Venture Capital Is Fixed, Yeah Right

The Bitcoin Before The Horse

KPCB Culpa Tua

The Social Naiveté Of Mark Suster

Greater-Fool Economics

Top-Quartile Is A Meritless And Meaningless Indicator Of Financial Performance

How Top-Quartile Runs Out Of Merit

KPCB Mea Culpa

Greater-Fool Paradise

Why VC Can’t Fix Itself

The State of Venture Capital Infographic

More Delusions Of Positivity From Tim Draper

The Evolution Of Evolution

Private Equity Is Investing In Hindsight, Venture Capital Is Investing In Foresight

CalPERS Emerging Manager Redefinition

The Lure Of Dave McClure

Why Modern Portfolio Theories Are Dying

The Big Venture Capital Mistake

Why 99.4% Of Venture Capital Firms Fail

How To Flip-Flop A Puffer Fish

Venture Capital: The Enemy Is Us

The Most Delusional Man In Venture Capital

The Meritocracy Of Shervin Pishevar

Did Venture Capital Promote Economic Growth?

Clueless San Francisco

Why Documents Don’t Protect LPs

Venture Capital Is Just Like American Idol, You Find Quality – You Don’t Teach...

ILPA Measures

Scaling Is Hard (For Subprime VC)

As A Limited Partner I Feel Uninformed

Regulating Private Equity

The Musical Chairs Of Financial Asset Management

Are Small Company IPOs Just Fine?

Lead Or Get The F*k Out

The Meager Role Of Meeker

Setting Menlo Ventures Straight On Siri

Against Cutting Out VC

Outlier Innovation Is Not Uniform, Nor Shall Be The Thesis Of Its Arbitrage

How Steve Jobs Proved Venture Capital Wrong

What Is Wrong With Yet Another $500M Venture Capital FoF?

The Venture Confession

Not So Bad Economy?

Great innovations come from the pursuit of prime risk, not from its avoidance

About Venture Capital Trusts

Fake Tits And Money

Europe’s PE & VC Confidence, Shaken Not Stirred

Ignore The Dow

How Not To Refer A Deal

Goodbye Secondaries

Trimming Venture

Downstream Thinking In Venture Capital

LP Entrapment

Pump-And-Dump IPOs

The IPO Bubble

Benevolent Dictators

Subprime Venture Capital

Financial Crisis Inevitable

A Bubble In A Bubble

The Risks LPs Ignore

Venture LPs Blowing In The Wind, Continued

Venture LPs blowing in the wind

Another Startup Flea Market Is Born

VC Escapism In Search Of Dumb Money

The Stock Market Is Not A Free-Market

The Fiduciary Responsibility Of Limited Partners

How Facebook Prolongs Subprime VC

ILPA etiquette

When Angels Collude And Collide

Spinning VC, Fundraisings Down

America’s Financial Statements

CalPERS Changes And VC Allocation

Venture Capital’s Problems Will Continue

Most Respected VCs? Really?

Money Does Not Equal Merit

Money Does Not Equal Risk

Startup America attempts

VC Transparency

VC Delusions Of Positivity

Against Small Funds

HealthTrain To Nowhere

Why Venture Firms Below $250M Cannot Succeed

Vinnie Paz on Venture

VC Spin Doctors

How VCs Kill Innovation

The Dark Side Of VC Positivity

Pension Funds Still Don’t Get It

What Is Wrong With Venture (Hint: Not Innovation)

New Expectations For Limited Partners In Venture

Dumb Capital, Please Exit Here

A Grand New Opportunity In Venture

Venture Is No Longer The Best Performing Asset Class

Idiot Limited Partners

Don’t Bite The Public Hand That Feeds You

How Venture Capitalists Dig Their Own Political Grave

Redefining Capital Efficiency

VC Roast; How To Take Venture For A Ride

Setting A New Goal In Venture

My Advice To VCs

Getting Venture Un-stuck From Its Subprime Maelstrom

Investing In Venture Unchanged, Is The Definition Of Insanity

You Get What You Put In: No Risk = No Returns

My Message To LPs In Venture; More Discipline, Please

Silly Venture, Surfing The Waves

A New, Modern Financial System To Fix Venture Is Coming

I Mistrust Most Venture Capitalists For Good Reason

There Never Was A Tech Bubble

Does Venture Scale?

How LPs In Venture Have Been Fooled, Many Times Over

The World’s First State Of Venture Capital Watched 15,000 Times

The Problem With Venture: No True Alpha And No True North

New York, An Empire State Of Mind

A New Way In Is The Way Out Of Venture

Einstein Rips VC, Posthumously

The (First Ever) State Of Venture Capital

Why Venture Capital Will Not Simply Recover When The Economy Does

Technology Is Not The Risk Of A Technology Company

Venture Capital Needs A Reset, My Message To Limited Partners

Why VCs Really Need Relevant Operating Experience, Now

How To Fix VC Once And For All

The Nitwits On Sand Hill Road

VC Performance, A Closer Look

VC Is Dead, Long Live VC

The Silicon Valley Emperor Wears No Clothes

Why VCs Need Relevant Operating Experience

Why VC Does Not Line Up With Innovation

The Systemic Risk Of Venture Capital

How LPs Should Deal With VC

Subprime Venture Capital Governs Innovation Into A Mind-Numbing Rat-Race For Advertising Clicks

The Auto Industry’s Plan To Fixing VC

Dear VC: Your Car Did Not Cause The Accident

A VC Revolution In The Making

How Not To Raise Money, My Real World Examples

The Economy Is The Opportunity Not The Problem, Of Innovation Or Venture Capital

How LPs Invested Deep, Not Wide In Technology

Introducing The VC blacklist: 217 And Counting

Radically Reinventing Venture Capital

How Subprime Venture Capital Fools Limited Partners

Mobile Is Dead (For VC), Continued

Venture Capital Should Ignite The Upside Of Innovation

As Venture Capital Turned Subprime, So Did Innovation

The Curse Of Subprime VC

Silicon Valley Believes All Swans Are White

Why I Don’t Buy Into Green VC

Mobile Is Dead, For VC That Is

The Delicacy Of European Investments

10 Investment Lessons Learned Over 10 Years

Domain Expertise Is Over-rated

In Search Of The Economist VC

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