Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.
A few weeks ago Sorosh Tavakoli, chief executive (CEO) of Videoplaza, one of my portfolio companies, and I visited Silicon Valley.
The purpose of the trip was mostly market intelligence, but we took a few meetings with some venture capitalists (VCs) as well.
One of those meetings was with James Slavet, of Greylock Ventures, investor in social networking companies Linkedin and Facebook and, most recently, discount coupon provider Groupon.
While the meeting was short and cursory, both…
