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CalPERS Marcie Frost’s ESG Permafrost

Improving Capitalism

Covert ESG Greenwashing Obfuscates Overt Greenwashing

Don’t Blame The SEC

Don’t Regulate Crypto; Abolish It

The Problem With FTX

The Path, A Book by Peter Mallouk and Tony Robbins, Quotes Georges

Can You Explain BlackRock’s Stance on ESG?

The Problem With The Stock Market

On ESG Differentiation

John Doerr, Not A Thinker Or A Doer

Putting Retirement Savings At Risk

Both Sides Of The ESG Debate Are Wrong

Pension Fund Shortfalls Hitting Home In NYC

ESG Deflation, A Victory Of Sorts

Larry Fink, of BlackRock, Is A Clever Coward

Private Equity Done Totally Right

Capitalism Is Not Killing The Planet

Dilly Dally Dalio

Making Money Is As Meaningless To The Future Of Humanity As Masturbation Is To...

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

Finance Is Morally Corrupt, According To António Guterres. Or Is it?

Bitcoin Trust Drops 50%

Fink Tank

Larry Fink’s Inkling

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

The New Role Of Money

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 Investing. 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

The Elasticity Of MLK’s Wisdom

Who Cares About ESG?

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

Top1000 Funds Fiduciary

Capitalize On Nature

Is Meritocracy On The Way Out?

Foundational Depravity

Venture Pitch Deck Review

Hotel CalPERS

COVID-19 And The Impact On Financial Systems

Has The dot.com Situation In 2020 Not Vastly Improved From 1990/2000s?

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 Pot Of Congress Calling Facebook’s Kettle Black

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

U.S. House Financial Services Committee Debates Building A Sustainable And Competitive Economy With ESG

On Unicorns

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

Everything Must Change

What Do You Think Of Bill Gates’ Work?

What Can Private Equity Do Better?

Alpha Is An Unstoppable Force Of Nature

Private Equity Done Right; KKR Industrial Group, Pete Stavros

Comment: Is Capitalism The Most Successful Economic System Ever Created?

CalPERS Needs A New Masterplan

How To Deal With Venture

Why All Financial Systems Run Out Of Steam

Out With The Lies

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?

Growth For The Sake Of Growth Is The Ideology Of A Cancer Cell

Why ESG Will Fail Us, Spectacularly

Asset Management Reinvented

How Fractal Finance Obliterates Economics

Rethink Asset Management

Farewell Sustainability, Hello Renewal

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

Is Capitalism The Best Political System?

What Are The Most Overrated Parts Of Capitalism?

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

Was Capitalism Designed To Create Inequality Within Working Classes?

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?

Isn’t It Just Great The Top Tech Giants Are So Heavily Invested In AI...

What Are Some Examples Of How Capitalism Failed?

What Is The End Goal Of Capitalism?

Does Free Market Capitalism Exist?

Is There Such A Thing Called Sustainable Capitalism? Not Just In The Sense Of...

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

CalPERS Direct, My Opinion On The Announcement

How Well Is American Capitalism Working And How Do You See It Affecting The...

Has There Ever Been A Pure Capitalist Society?

Why Do We Attack Capitalism?

What Do Entrepreneurs Dislike About Entrepreneurship?

Why Are Angel Investors So Difficult To Find?

Where Can I Find A Database Of VCs?

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?

Is There A Fundamental Problem With Capitalism?

What Is The Reputation Of The Founders Fund As A VC Firm?

Do VC Firms Who Actively Express Support For Female Entrepreneurs Actually Succeed In Being...

How Should Someone Approach VCs For The First Time Without Knowing Anyone Or Having...

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?

Cryptocurrency Is The rejection Of Centralisation And Government Intervention. Is The Price Explosion A...

Is Capitalism To Blame For Inequality?

What Role Does The Financial Sector Play In A Country’s Economy?

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

Is Capitalism Broken?

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 Are Some Important Questions That Common People Don’t Know About Money Or Economy?

What Are The Most Evil Things VCs Do?

Do Angels Consider A Lower Downside Risk A Positive When Investing, Or Do They...

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...

Which VC Firms Are The Best To Work With?

What Led You To Become An Angel/VC?

What Are Things That Annoy You When Entrepreneurs Pitch To You Angels/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...

Why Is Money Ruling Everything? I Feel There Should Be A Socialist Economy In...

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?

Hypothetically, Is There Any Way For Societies To Promote Free Market Capitalism While Preventing...

What Is The Importance Of Financial Markets In An Economy?

What Can Be The Reason(s) That VCs/Angel Investors Aren’t Interested In My Profitable Business...

What Do I Need To Send To My Venture Capital Firm? They Said I...

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...

What Were The Causes For The Global Financial Crisis?

How Long Should A Good Venture Capital Proposal Be?

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

Why Was Capitalism Not Possible Or Was Not Discovered In Pre-State Societies Like Hunter-Gatherers,...

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...

What Type Of Capitalism Do You Identify With?

Why Would I Want To Raise Funding Through ICO vs. Equity Crowdfunding, Venture Capital,...

What Would Unrestricted Capitalism Look Like?

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...

What Could Have Prevented The Dot-Com Bubble?

Why We Need A New Operating-System For Humanity

Should I Trust Advice From A Late Stage Private Equity Firm When I’m Still...

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

As An Angel Investor Or VC, Do You Prefer A Founder Saying He Has...

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?

How Many Venture Capitalists Are There In The United States?

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

Innovation Is Not A Capital Crapshoot

Why Aren’t There Investors For Startups Whose Market Is Latin America? Silicon Valley VCs...

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 Holding Back Venture Capitalists And Angel Investors From Participating In “Equity CrowdFunding...

What is the future of Bitcoin in 2017 in Canada?

Will The Housing Bubble In The Bay Area Burst In 2017/2018?

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

What Effect Does Taking Venture Capital Have On A Company’s Percent Chance Of Success...

What Exactly Caused The Dot-Com Bubble To Burst?

Why Is Snapchat Worth 24 Billion Dollars?

Why Do Venture Capitalists Replace Founders Of Startups?

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

Are Venture Capital Finders Or Brokers Frowned Upon?

What Would You Invent To Help The World?

Why Is Capitalism Said To Be Amoral?

What Are The Demerits Of capitalism?

Is It Time To End Capitalism?

What Is The Real Cost Of Money?

Who Are The Most Successful VCs And VCs Companies In London?

How Does Money Influence Society?

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?

What Happens If A Company Grows At A Rate Inconsistent With Its Sustainable Growth?

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 The Most Successful Economic System Ever Created?

Why is capitalism too big a topic to talk about?

Why Do You Support Capitalism?

Is capitalism a means to an end?

Why Are Successful Startups So Rare?

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

Why Won’t Some VCs Invest In A Crowdfunded Startup?

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?

Socialism Is The Snake Oil – Not The Cure – To Our Bronze Age...

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?

Is GDP A “Good Enough” Indicator For The Performance Of A Country’s 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...

Why Are VCs So Negative?

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

NYSE Euronext’s Free Market Fallacy

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

Are VCs Still Relevant?

Why VC Can’t Fix Itself

The State of Venture Capital Infographic

More Delusions Of Positivity From Tim Draper

The Greatest Lie Of All

The Evolution Of Evolution

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

The Evolution Of Innovation

CalPERS Emerging Manager Redefinition

The Lure Of Dave McClure

Why Modern Portfolio Theories Are Dying

The Big Venture Capital Mistake

Venturing In Silicon Valley Versus China

Why 99.4% Of Venture Capital Firms Fail

How To Flip-Flop A Puffer Fish

VC Performance Inching Back?

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

Debt Financing In Startups

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?

Pancake Economics

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

Interview On Innovation And Venture Capital

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

We Fail Because We Lie

Goodbye Secondaries

Trimming Venture

Downstream Thinking In Venture Capital

LP Entrapment

Few exits over $100M

Pump-And-Dump IPOs

The IPO Bubble

Benevolent Dictators

Subprime Venture Capital

Bullish On The U.S.

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

TV Is Dead

Subprime Visas

No Venture Beats Subprime

Stock Mapping, Despite VC

ILPA etiquette

Startup America For Dummies

When Angels Collude And Collide

Spinning VC, Fundraisings Down

America’s Financial Statements

378 Stale VCs? VC should give back too

Obama’s Pipe Dream

VC Falls Further To 10-Year Minus 4.64% Returns

CalPERS Changes And VC Allocation

Startup America Is A Bad Idea

Venture Capital’s Problems Will Continue

$1B Companies Build GDP

Most Respected VCs? Really?

Money Does Not Equal Merit

Money Does Not Equal Risk

Startup America attempts

VC Transparency

Infectious Stupidity

VC Delusions Of Positivity

Against Small Funds

HealthTrain To Nowhere

Why Venture Firms Below $250M Cannot Succeed

LinkedIn IPO

VC Blog Merit

Vinnie Paz on Venture

Avoid Investor Noise

Resurrect Venture Capital, VC recommendation

VC Spin Doctors

Respect As Currency

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

The Crucial Difference Between Derivative And Value

The Need For A New Habitat Of Innovation

Dumb Capital, Please Exit Here

Saving Silicon Valley

A Grand New Opportunity In Venture

Venture Extinction Is Upon Us

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

Why Entrepreneurs Should Not Follow An Investor’s Compass

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

Why VC Is Such A Bad Date

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

In Predicting The Future, Macro Matters

The (First Ever) State Of Venture Capital

Capitalism Without Merit Is a Bold Lie

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

Why Do You Keep Listening To VC As The Barometer Of Innovation?

The Importance Of Being Free-And-Earnest

How To Fix VC Once And For All

The Telephone-Game Of Derivatives

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

The Trap Of “Capital Efficiency”

Don’t Take The Funded Serious

How Not To Raise Money, My Real World Examples

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

The Economy Is Not The Problem (Of Venture Capital)

How LPs Invested Deep, Not Wide In Technology

How Sub-Prime VC Stings Twice

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

Trust Is Earned, Not given. Built By The Unwavering Authenticity, Integrity, And Transparency For...

Trust Is The Currency Of Success

Markets Do Not Exist

Demise of image Super-Stores continues

Digital Railroad in trouble?

Why I Don’t Buy Into Green VC

Photoshelter, Another One Bites The Dust

Beware Of The Platform That Is Not

Mobile Is Dead, For VC That Is

No IPOs In 2Q08, I Told You So

The Remarkable Resemblance Between Innovation And Photography

Don’t Listen To Customers

The Sweet Taste Of Success

Getting To Know Your VC (Better)

The Delicacy Of European Investments

Marketplace Rules: Look, Do Not Touch

10 Investment Lessons Learned Over 10 Years

10 Fundraising Lessons Learned Over 10 Years

Getty Images Sold For $2.1B; Did Grandpa Posthumously Bail Them Out?

Getty-Images: Q4FY07 Earnings call fog

What’s Next For Getty-Images?

Puff, puff, puff, puff ……….. poof

Fleeting Assets Of The Imaging Puffer Fish

Diving deep with imaging Puffer Fish

Imaging Sales Market Broken From The Top

Image Catalogs In Peril

I Have A Dream…

Domain Expertise Is Over-rated

Cyclical Innovation

The Industry-Analyst Cookbook

Per-Plaxo-Ed

Bye, bye Treo and Palm

The Long Tail Continues

No Long Tail Without A Torso

In Search Of The Economist VC

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