Venture Capitalists Sometimes Just Pretend to Be Smart

This morning's "Batteries: The Venture Capitalist's Holy Grail" reminded me of a Scott Adams cartoon that is almost too true to be funny:

Always, always remember:

"Fundamentally VCs are risk adverse – they want no risk in the deal,
if we could handle risk we'd be entrepreneurs."

– Victor Westerlind, General Partner at Cleantech VC firm Rockport Capital

From our post "Climateer Line of the Day: Venture Capital Edition".