In respect of seed and venture capital (VC) funding, Heinz Oyrer posed the statement "The European market is more or less dead but the US is still open" to members of the European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley LinkedIn group.
Angelo Bonomi: The amount of seed/VC investments is apparently considered as a measure of success of seed/VC activity. Statistics, however, show the majority of such investments are loss-making. Scherer and Haroff, in a statistical study published in 2000 on 1,000 German patents valid for at least 10 years showed less than 10% were an important financial success.
But important returns are necessary to seed/VC to assure a medium to long-term vitality. It is a good indication how low the…
