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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

Gust

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. So which is it? and the U.K.,

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

techcrunch.com

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. So which is it? and the U.K.,

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Many Many Moments of Lift

Reid Hoffman

But it’s not just that the Foundation has been effective at aggregating and analyzing the “whos,” “whats,” “wheres,” “whens,” and “hows” of huge global challenges like childhood mortality. In 2000, she co-founded The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has since grown into the world’s largest private charitable organization.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. With marketplaces, the entrepreneur has to worry not just about building supply and demand but that they also happen to exist simultaneously.

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