November 2007
Why Early Stage Venture Investments Fail
In my last post on failure rates in early stage venture capital, I made the point that every portfolio is going to have failures. I’ve made 32 direct investments (the deals I’ve sourced, led, and managed myself) over the past... [Read More]
November 30, 2007 08:34 AM, By Fred Wilson
Comments (41)
| Tag this post with del.icio.us
Tags: burnrate failure startups
Failure Rates In Early Stage Venture Deals
My friend Jeff Jarvis invited me to talk to his class yesterday. Jeff is doing something really cool. He’s teaching graduate students in journalism school how to be entrepreneurs. So these students graduate with the understanding that they have another... [Read More]
November 29, 2007 10:09 AM, By Fred Wilson
Comments (19)
| Tag this post with del.icio.us
Tags: failure performance returns success venture
Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class
I wrote a series of blog posts about venture capital fund performance on my personal weblog several weeks ago. One of the things that came out of that series is the fact that the top quartile of fund managers performs... [Read More]
November 26, 2007 05:35 AM, By Fred Wilson
Comments (15)
| Tag this post with del.icio.us
Tags: capital deal firms performance venture