Why Should Entrepreneurs Attend a Venture Café?
When an idea is new, it seems perfect. But most ideas for new high-tech businesses require a great deal of tweaking before they can blossom into profitable corporations. When cultivating a new idea, it is often useful to bounce the idea off fellow technologists, angel investors, and venture capitalists (VCs) before spending huge amounts of time and money to turn the idea into a new business. A Venture Café is a place where entrepreneurs can talk about their ideas, listen to other people’s ideas, and provide constructive criticism. The underlying assumption behind a Venture Café is that everyone who has a sincere interest in starting a new high-tech company — or in helping those who do — can contribute something to the general pool of information. A would-be entrepreneur might participate by listening to someone’s idea and making a suggestion about how it could be improved. Or, she might participate by listening to an entrepreneur recount the various obstacles she has had to overcome
