Non consensus and right
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Non consensus and right
VENTURE CAPITAL MINDSET: Become the candidate that every venture capital firm would like to hire
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Fewer Losers, or More Winners?
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Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40
There are 3 ways to successfully generate outsized returns in venture:
1) Find an obviously great company before anyone else.
2) Compete to win an allocation into an obviously great company.
3) Have a contrarian perspective on a company that everyone else thinks isn't great, and be right.
All of the above can work, but require very different sk... See more
As I will explore, successful investing is often contrarian and counterintuitive. If you go against the crowd, buck the current trends, and ignore your emotions, you will succeed.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune
You can be world class as either an agglomerator or a specialist - Sequoia is the former, Benchmark is the latter. But being in the middle - neither an agglomerator nor a specialist - is very challenging, and may be no man's land in today's environment.