{"id":255,"date":"2010-02-04T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:52:03","slug":"mark-it-zero-institutions-calling-it-quits-on-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/mark-it-zero-institutions-calling-it-quits-on-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark It Zero: Institutions Calling It Quits on Venture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demand will always go where the money is easier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A year ago when we started raising our second fund, which is somewhat bigger, we wanted an institutional base,&#8221; Patricof said. &#8220;We went out for six months and didn&amp;apos;t get a single response. Then we went back to our original investors, sent out a letter again, and four weeks later we raised a lot of money with just a letter and no phone calls. The individual investor market is a great market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/mark_it_zero_in.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InfectiousGreed+%28Paul+Kedrosky%27s+Infectious+Greed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Mark It Zero: Institutions Calling It Quits on Venture?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand will always go where the money is easier. &#8220;A year ago when we started raising our second fund, which is somewhat bigger, we wanted an institutional base,&#8221; Patricof said. &#8220;We went out for six months and didn&amp;apos;t get a single response. Then we went back to our original investors, sent out a letter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/mark-it-zero-institutions-calling-it-quits-on-venture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark It Zero: Institutions Calling It Quits on Venture?<\/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":[22],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}