{"id":2680,"date":"2011-10-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fpisani.wpengine.com\/yumbling-part-2-when-capital-fears-risk\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:00:00","slug":"yumbling-part-2-when-capital-fears-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francispisani.net\/en\/yumbling-part-2-when-capital-fears-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Yumbling part 2: When Capital Fears Risk &#8211; Francis Pisani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ob-sections\">\n<div class=\"ob-section ob-section-html\">\n<p>Mexico DF \u2013 Ricard Suarez found the money he needed for launching\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yumbling.com\/Home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yumbling<\/a>, his site that aggregates all possible\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/winch5-blog\/2011\/10\/yumbling-mexican-startup\/\" title=\"Yumbling part 1\">information on entertainment in Mexico City<\/a>, while incorporating social-media and gaming layers. He found enough to pay developers for a year and to launch his first applications for the web, iPhone, Nokia and Blackberry in mid-September. But now he needs more funding in order to grow, to adapt to what he has learned from his fairly successful early efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s the fate of every startup. But here\u2019s where things get complicated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The way Suarez puts it, \u201cthere\u2019s money in Mexico, but it gets invested in more traditional industries, or in businesses that are making money.\u201d I talk about this in more detail in my column on the last page of Le Monde\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/journalelectronique\/donnees\/libre\/20111001\/index.html?cahier=SCH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supplement, Science&amp;Techno<\/a>\u00a0(online print version, subscription required).<\/p>\n<p>This factor, along with others (universities that invest little in research and rarely promote entrepreneurship, for example) contributes to a particularly anemic innovation climate, but it gives me the opportunity to reflect and comment on the term \u201ccapital risk.\u201d French and Spanish speakers use this term, and it is disastrous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venture_capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venture capital<\/a>,\u201d the term used by English speakers, means something entirely different, or rather, it evokes different sentiments. \u201cVenture\u201d can mean\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/enfr\/venture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cadventure,\u201d \u201cundertaking,\u201d or \u201cattempt,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>among other things. Risk plays a role, but the possibility of winning is built into the word \u2013 this creates desire.<\/p>\n<p>But calling people who invest in early-stage businesses \u201ccapital riskers\u201d \u2013 underlining the possibility of failure \u2013 will only cause those who have the money to invest in sure-things. And innovation inevitably suffers.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying that the fact that the climate is unfavorable to Mexican startups \u2013 as in France and Spain \u2013 is first and foremost a question of vocabulary. But I\u2019m sure it plays a role, in a negative way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I would prefer \u201caudacious capital,\u201d for example<\/strong>. You needed audacity to bet on Google in 1999, or on Facebook in 2007. It\u2019s not that the risk wasn\u2019t there, but the connotation seems more positive to me.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? And, especially, what do you suggest?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico DF \u2013 Ricard Suarez found the money he needed for launching\u00a0Yumbling, his site that aggregates all possible\u00a0information on entertainment in Mexico City, while incorporating social-media and gaming layers. He found enough to pay developers for a year and to launch his first applications for the web, iPhone, Nokia and Blackberry in mid-September. 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