Zider: How venture capital works
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Contrary to popular perception, venture capital plays only a minor role in innovation. It does play important rol in next stage of innovation life cycle
The upside of venture capital for entrepreneur
Venture Money is not long-term, the idea is
- invest in org. balance sheet and infrastructure
- until it reaches a sufficient size and credibility
- So that it can be sold with profit
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How the venture capital industry works
Venture Capitalists focus on middle part of classic industry S-curve. They avoid both
- Early stages, when technologies are uncertain and market needs unknown
- Later stages, when competitive shakeouts and consolidations are inevitable and growth rates are slow
Venture capital exists because
A few probabilities have great impact on how venture capitalists spent their time
- little time is required on the real winners or the worst performers (numnuts)
- significant time is allocated on middle portfolio companies
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