All those preconceptions you had about chino-wearing venture capitalists with their fancy MBAs are handily confirmed today in a snapshot of the industry’s demographics provided by the National Venture Capital Association.

In fact, even your preconceptions may not have prepared you for this. A startling 86 per cent of the VCs who actually make decisions about investments are men (at least that is according to the people who responded to the survey, by the NVCA and Dow Jones Venturewire.) Read more