Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Government Regulation Over Venture Capital Funds

The Government now says it would like to regulate venture capital funds because VCs advise the startup companies they finance, The Securities and Exchange Commission would supervise the regulation.

Naturally, bureaucrats feel venture capitalists “advise.” But that makes the slippery slope even more slippery. That would also make every member of a company’s board of directors an “adviser.” Or place every major bank lender into this category, and so on.

There would be no end to such regulation. It would open up the job market for all those civil servants who never operated a pushcart, but know how to run any business assigned to them for meddling.

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