http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/04/about-intellectual-ventures/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:53:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/04/about-intellectual-ventures/#comment-439634 Yves Grassioulet Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:27:48 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/04/about-intellectual-ventures/#comment-439634 this approach of investment looks much more realistic than the one often proposed by VCs, who obviously don't care about ideas/inventions creation but from their ROI perspective. here you feel that there's more than investing into one company, and get your filthy money back whatever the price. most entrepreneurs feel being trapped into one big financial net right after getting their first seed money. then, in addition to all the daily burdens of getting things done, they suddenly have to run after another "tour de table", and another one... investors' injunctions to succeed by applying the whole management/market theory and tools often feel so much out of human perspective. inventions that lead to radical and "healthy" companies are based on natural development pace, not one-way push and squared business model. on the other hand, intellectual ventures are still market-based. could be interesting to ask <a>inventors</a> about their real experience with Intellectual Ventures. can investors really be philanthropist? this approach of investment looks much more realistic than the one often proposed by VCs, who obviously don’t care about ideas/inventions creation but from their ROI perspective. here you feel that there’s more than investing into one company, and get your filthy money back whatever the price. most entrepreneurs feel being trapped into one big financial net right after getting their first seed money. then, in addition to all the daily burdens of getting things done, they suddenly have to run after another “tour de table”, and another one… investors’ injunctions to succeed by applying the whole management/market theory and tools often feel so much out of human perspective. inventions that lead to radical and “healthy” companies are based on natural development pace, not one-way push and squared business model. on the other hand, intellectual ventures are still market-based. could be interesting to ask inventors about their real experience with Intellectual Ventures. can investors really be philanthropist?

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