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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

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At the same time, despite some realizations in recent years through M&A, PE acquisitions, and IPOs, the general sense I get from LPs is that the level of distributions don’t quite line up with the unrealized performance. For example, a $10B endowment might be looking to have 10% ($1B) allocated to venture capital at any one time.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? I’ve Been in Venture Capital for Two Months.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

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As of January 20, 2016, based on the “CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboard,” there are 157 unicorns (companies with $1 billion+ valuations) which have not IPOed or been acquired—and more start-ups reaching unicorn status every day. Unicorns have been over-hyped during the past few years, and nowadays frequently attacked by skeptics. that of GSB).