{"id":194,"date":"2009-12-07T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:09:36","slug":"vc-investors-worry-about-the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-clothes-venture-capital-dispatch-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/vc-investors-worry-about-the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-clothes-venture-capital-dispatch-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"VC Investors Worry About The Emperor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Clothes &#8211; Venture Capital Dispatch &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a new wave of venture investors, particularly sovereign wealth funds and other international LPs, have stepped in to help fill the gap, changing LP dynamics<\/p>\n<p>The famous tale tells the story of an emperor who is conned by a unscrupulous tailor, who tells him that his new clothes are only visible to those that are clever and worthy of their positions. Neither the emperor nor his subjects want to admit that he is naked for fear that they will seem ignorant or incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The composition of the investors does make me a bit nervous,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Piette. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are certain new investors flooding in that are afraid to admit that they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see the emperor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new clothes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!-- sphereit end -->via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/venturecapital\/2009\/12\/04\/vc-investors-worry-about-the-emperors-new-clothes\/\">VC Investors Worry About The Emperor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Clothes &#8211; Venture Capital Dispatch &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a new wave of venture investors, particularly sovereign wealth funds and other international LPs, have stepped in to help fill the gap, changing LP dynamics The famous tale tells the story of an emperor who is conned by a unscrupulous tailor, who tells him that his new clothes are only visible to those that are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/vc-investors-worry-about-the-emperor%e2%80%99s-new-clothes-venture-capital-dispatch-wsj\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VC Investors Worry About The Emperor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Clothes &#8211; Venture Capital Dispatch &#8211; WSJ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}