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euio757today at 7:32 PM1 replyview on HN

> Those firms also stop legally even being venture capital firms

We need an equivalent of the "Fiduciary" word for financial advisors ... but applied to VCs.

"Are you an Artisanal, Free-Range, Fair-Trade™ VC?"


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WhatsTheBigIdeatoday at 7:59 PM

VC General Partners (managers of the VC fund) are already fiduciaries with responsibility to the fund's Limited Partners (people and institutions which invest in VCs). Their fiduciary responsibility is to maximize return on investment.