.Dust

I have recently attended an event where an Ital­ian ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist was pre­sent­ing his company.

The main goal of the venue was to explain the main prin­ci­ples of the ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist business.

I was expect­ing some­thing excit­ing in the pre­sen­ta­tion itself. I under­stand the finance may not be the fun­ni­est argu­ment in the Uni­verse but what­ever the argu­ment is your pre­sen­ta­tion may be funny.

I would have liked the first slide of the pre­sen­ta­tion say­ing some­thing like “Hey, You have a dream, I have the money to make it come true” and then go through all the hur­dles of the sub­ject. Pos­i­tive mes­sage with some impli­ca­tions to be detailed later in the presentation.

Unfor­tu­nately the first slide was clut­tered with small text and num­bers and the speaker started with these two sentences:

“We may give you money, but rest sure we want it back” and

“If I had to make a sug­ges­tion to a young entre­pre­neur I would sug­gest to leave Italy and fund the com­pany in another Euro­pean country”

That was quite sad to hear.

Lucky us the next pre­sen­ta­tion was made by a very funny lawyer that even if he was talk­ing about sad things such a com­pany winding-​up or write off made us laugh most of the time.

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