Comments on: Announcement: New Platforms Fund

By: 家教

家教 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:20:03 +0000

Anyone else think the same? Got me thinking after reading this, thx man.

By: Outsourcing Philippines

Outsourcing Philippines — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:59:57 +0000

wow that is really cool, thanks Darren

By: Purely yours

Purely yours — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:56:34 +0000

Loved the whole concept, I am sure you will be successful with this one!

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By: Mark

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By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:50:35 +0000

Darren: I also wanted to point out that taking a larger role in providing the "starting a company" services (getting your hands dirty) on top of the investing is a great idea. Scaling is one of the first questions people will raise: but why does it need to scale?

I've seen the consulting + services model (I'm shying away from calling it the incubator model) start to crop up a bit recently, including the guys at Venture51 (Brandon Zeuner and Ryan Swagar, http://venture51.com/ ) in Scottsdale, AZ. There's a wide range of investment / services models out there, and I'm glad to see a number of people testing the potential.

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:41:23 +0000

Mark, I'll agree, I'd be amazed if we didn't see more “micro VC” approaches, in the sense of very small VC funds investing small $$ into small ventures. You've hit the nail on the head that while so many technological and cultural trends have made creating micro VC and micro-entrepreneurship a reality, the infrastructural transaction costs (legal, accounting, etc.) and the methods for pricing exchanges of value (e.g. “getting paid”) aren't there yet.

Those are the innovation opportunities in my mind; merely applying the existing VC model to smaller businesses fails to address the real opportunity; ventures like Hb are how we will figure it out. Awesome.

By: Darren's Mom

Darren's Mom — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:47:24 +0000

A fool and his money are soon parted.

By: A.S.Rao

A.S.Rao — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:55:50 +0000

Darren, An interesting concept certainly. Will angel investors be interested ? not expected in India- the transaction cost will be a hurdle. We, in government (India) run such a micro fund, but strictly for embedded products. Well, transaction cost is not important for a Government, they can afford it and mobilising creative people is a nationally importantbactivity.

ASRao
http://tepp-innovators.blogspot.com/

By: dherman76

dherman76 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:03:23 +0000

Dave appreciate the comments! Looking forward to connecting the next time you're in NYC