I represent an initiative group for creating a rating predictive association for European startups.
Manifesto of meritocratic future of investment industry.

If you are an investor, then you are interested in prediction of the future world economy and politics. One of the method of forecasting - Analysis of public consciousness, in particular through the analysis of mass culture.
Have you noticed that the number of films about zombies increased by an order? What does this mean? I'd venture that this is a reflection of the inability of people to manage their economic situation. The crisis at any moment can turn our neighbors into bankruptcy - a zombie, which through the state budget suck juices from those who are still alive.
But scaling the image of a zombie great economic structure - the company, state and entire regions, and one can see that the authors had anticipated zombie movie:
their massive transformation into a zombie. We are talking about Europe, which threatens to infect the entire world of the second wave of the crisis.
This time it will be worse. For Europeans, in anticipation of the second wave, the bureaucratic mentality makes her look like a zombie.

The main thesis of our manifesto: European investors should be vaccinated by American mentality.
Fearfulness European financiers led to credit contraction, leading to deflation and to ensure that their fears are realized.
We need a transatlantic investment market, where venture capitalists from the United States would share its experience with frozen counterparts from Europe.
The American experience is much greater because of the mentality: in the U.S. is in the order of things several times to create business, and not to give in case of failure, and continue to go to the American dream.
And in Europe decided to hide and failures, and successes, a bright example of which are multi-millionaires - the secret owners of the German chain Aldi Albrecht brothers. Compare with the U.S., where business transparency and exchange of experiences - the duty of managers. Meritocracy - that is the social system that makes America a leader.
Nothing of the kind in Europe, no, here ruled family clans, which are protected from meritocracy - the bureaucracy. This leads to the fact that European leaders, even in venture funds, behave like zombies. So European investors need to be cooperative transactional site, where they would jointly invest with the Americans, taking off risks, as they like. Such a platform should include forecasting tools, such as matrix "GE - McKinsey, allowing joint efforts to characterize the advantages of producing companies and the consensus forecasts of growth industries.