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I agree! I think this was a poor decision. Not sure why it was done.
A lot of people on this site tend to group them together when they are discussing them. Most of them are referring to VC funds that are very late stage that are Growth Equity or very close to it. Seed stage VC isn't referred to very often as they tend to take ex-founders and startup employees - who aren't really on this site.
I agree. However, 'VC Vernacular' was one of the least trafficked forums here. You could go over a week without seeing a new thread, and the volume of comments was lower by orders of magnitude.
The big issue I can see leading to the decision to combine things was how people with questions about growth equity would struggle to choose where to post their thread (or even cross-post into both). Most people here are current or prospective banking analysts. What do you do as an analyst? Dream of your buy-side placement. What types of places can you get to from IBD? HF, PE, and GE.
You don't see banking analysts going to First Round, Union Square, Greycroft, etc. You see them at places like TA Associates, NEA, Summit, etc. Later stage firms value the modeling skill-set that banking hones, so intuitively, they don't mind talking to banking analysts.
Add all these factors together and you can see why VC wasn't a popular forum. A lot of people today think of VC as early stage; the types of people in early stage investing roles and employees in the small teams working at early stage companies are far less likely to be on WSO.
there are definitely lots of bankers (especially tech bankers) who work in early stage VC but more or a mix of backgrounds compared with PE/GE which are almost purely ex-bankers/MBB.
Is there a dedicated VC forum that is more active that anyone knows about?
Must agree with OP. I'm also curious, "Is there a dedicated VC forum that is more active that anyone knows about?"
Yeah, it's called Twitter. Seriously, the VC circlejerk there is hilarious. It's the one place people in a relatively obscure profession can feel like rockstars with crowds of fans. The real shame is that some of the smartest investors have no audience, while the more press-hungry (and attentive) guys really stand out.
As noted above. I think it was mostly the traffic portion.
Rarely anything was happening (or has been happening) in the VC forum. I think its a smart move and might drive a little more talk about VC in general which over the past few years has had a pretty growth.
WallStreetOasis.com ?
I'm in a VC course for my MBA right now, and even the professor said that VC is part of PE.
VC is literally PE in that it is equity and it is private.
To the point - I think many of the subforums on here should be combined. It is very dilutive currently. I would merge ER, AM, HF, and Investing all together for example.
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