The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth
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The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth
A great deal has been written about what constitutes Venture Capital and what does not (including by this very author) in these seventy years. Though many different things to many different people, Justice Potter Stewart’s famous dictum in Jacobellis v. Ohio works for our purposes:I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I ... See more
Tom White • How does Early-Stage Venture Capital Perform in a Recession?
When a venture investor is in the business of trying to predict to some high degree of probability a successful financial outcome, he wants to know that the future course of the company is relatively clear and that as many tools as possible are provided to him to influence that future when necessary.
Alex Wilmerding • Term Sheets & Valuations: A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valutions (Bigwig Briefs)
Bhidé, Amar. The Venturesome Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Venture investing presented opportunities to discourse with visionaries from a myriad of industries, play a critical role in the innovation life-cycle of companies, and create value and jobs in the process.
Ganesh Ramakrishnan • Confessions of an Investment Banker Turned VC | MHV | Monk's Hill Ventures
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James Mawson • Corporate Venturing: A Survival Guide
“Over 70% of startups fail or die. 3% of companies exit above $100 million, 0.7 % exit above $500 million, 0.2% exit above $1 billion, 0.06% exit above $2 billion. In the 1,000 companies hand-selected and funded by venture capital, only two of them can get to an exit over $1 billion. Five companies exit between $500 million and $1 billion. A total
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