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Do Silicon Start-Ups Have A Future?Mannerisms - David MannersOct. 03, 2011 |
We'll all be selling tickets to Theme Park Europe if we don't start building the new companies of the future, Lawrence Johns of Amadeus Capital Partners told the Silicon South-West Viva Entrepreneurs! meeting in Bath last Friday.
"We need a lot more geniuses," said Johns, "VCs are getting grief because we're getting crap returns in Europe and it's your fault - you entrepreneurs can't create enough value. So people are retrenching, they're putting their money into gold - or Greece."