Adeo Ressi, once the harshest critic of VCs

Adeo Ressi initially in Silicon Valley began in 2007 he founded a wind to comment on the website thefunded, the website of the venture investment institutions and their partners comments are rather spicy. Now 6.5 past, Ressi but oneself founded a VC, named expansive ventures.

Expansive ventures is an early angel investor in Ressi and Blumberg Capital's management partner Jon Soberg, with a single investment of 500,000 to 2 million dollars. Just set up, the investment style is also conservative, prefer continuous entrepreneurs, and for those who are not familiar with the entrepreneurs, they tend to follow the vote.

The interesting thing about this institution is that it can get resources from founder Cato, another incubator that Ressi as CEO. The latter has entrepreneurship training programs in 78 cities around the world, has more than 3,100 CEO network of entrepreneurs, and the implementation of tutorial system. The mentors include CEOs of well-known companies such as Uber, Evernote, Zipcar and mint. As mentors, they can recommend items to expansive ventures, and recommend prizes, equity incentive forms. In this form, it is estimated that Ressi wants to maximize the amount of entrepreneurial resources he has accumulated over the years.