Comments on: Can you explain venture capital to a 5th grader?

By: Electric Cement Mixer :

Electric Cement Mixer : — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:23:56 +0000

venture capital investments are very very risky, don’t invest if you do not have the nerve to do so:’:

By: MK

MK — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:55:37 +0000

Nice prezo..

My 5th graders is part of our startup! I was amazed to see that a 5th grader has an amazing sense of business, technology and marketing.

It would be nice to add additional resources that could point them to further reading..Ex. simple case studies.

By: Utkarsh Singh

Utkarsh Singh — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:31:02 +0000

@prashant, @amit

to me this post along with the embedded presentation was a confluence of simplicity and useful knowledge.
Come on guys, this here is not the place to bring in contradictory facts (“points”) and discuss upon them. Just enjoy and educate without any superficial cognition.

By: Amit Ranjan

Amit Ranjan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:50:54 +0000

Prashant,

Good points…. another one that I would have liked to add is that the VC has to exit the ice cream investment after 3-4 years, and that factor changes many things straightaway

By: Prashant Singh

Prashant Singh — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:23:24 +0000

i guess some slides are missing

The slide where VC says why you need an experienced ice cream seller as head of company.

The slide Where VC tell the kid to introduce yet another flavor of vanilla so that product have mass apeeal .

and finally where the kid finds that 50% of his company enabled VC to buy an island in Bahamas and he can’t buy house for his parents cause money is locked down in stocks of acquiring company which he can’t sell for 3 years .

By: Utkarsh Singh

Utkarsh Singh — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:05:34 +0000

Cute presentation

Finally I’ve figured out who is a VC