VC history seen with rose-colored glasses

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Thanks to Eastwick PR for inviting me to a private screening of the new documentary "Something Ventured." I highly recommend it as an important piece of the history of the electronics industry--seen through somewhat rose-colored glasses.

The film tells the humorous and very human stories of a handful of veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalists, but it underplays the shadow side of this world that's also well known here in Silicon Valley. It's wonderfully entertaining and informative, but it doesn't really open up this sector of our industry to as much critical analysis as it deserves, according to a report in EETimes.

Missing from the film is a hard look at Silicon Valley's over-work ethic that venture-funded startups drive. Startups are notorious for striking with employees a questionable bargain of the promise of possible riches in return for the certainty of dedicating four or five years of their lives to creating a new company.  >>More here

SOURCE:  eetimes.com