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Sufficient Returns at Acceptable Risk

Investors in venture capital funds are typically very large institutions such as pension funds, financial firms, insurance companies, and university endowments—all of which put a small percentage of their total funds into high-risk investments. They expect a return of between 25% and 35% per year over the lifetime of the investment. Because these investments represent such a tiny part of the institutional investors’ portfolios, venture capitalists have a lot of latitude. 

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Venture capital’s niche

Venture capital’s niche

It exists because of the structure and rules of capital markets. Someone with an idea or a new technology often has no other institution to turn to.

Historically, a company could not access the public market without sales of about $15 million, assets of $10 million, and a reasonable profit ...

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Modern Day Cowboys

Modern Day Cowboys

Today’s venture capitalists look more like bankers, and the entrepreneurs they fund look more like M.B.A.’s.

The U.S. venture-capital industry is envied throughout the world as an engine of economic growth.

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Venture money is not long-term money.

Venture money is not long-term money.

The idea is to invest in a company’s balance sheet and infrastructure until it reaches a sufficient size and credibility so that it can be sold to a corporation or so that the institutional public-equity markets can step in and provide liquidity. In essence, the venture capitalist buys a stake in...

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Venture Capital Fills a Void

Venture Capital Fills a Void

Venture money plays an important role is in the next stage of the innovation life cycle—the period in a company’s life when it begins to commercialize its innovation. We estimate that more than 80% of the money invested by venture capitalists goes into building the infrastructure required to grow...

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Timing Is Everything

Timing Is Everything

More than 80% of the money invested by venture capitalists goes into the adolescent phase of a company’s life cycle. In this period of accelerated growth, the financials of both the eventual winners and losers look strikingly similar.

Picking the wrong industry or betting on a technology ri...

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Venture Capital is the missing link

Venture capital fills the void between sources of funds for innovation (chiefly corporations, government bodies, and the entrepreneur’s friends and family) and traditional, lower-cost sources of capital available to ongoing concerns.

Filling that void successfully requires the venture capit...

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The Investment Profile.

One myth is that venture capitalists invest in good people and good ideas. The reality is that they invest in good industries—that is, industries that are more competitively forgiving than the market as a whole. 

Now, more than 25% of disbursements are devoted to the Internet “space.” The a...

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buzzedison

Business Strategist, Investing in Africa, Tech Evangelist.

I am passionate about Investment and most importantly investing in businesses directly. Had a conversation with the VC Lab on the formation of my new Venture Capital firm and I needed to compare my fundraising strategy with what I can find on the internet, and that led me to this article by Harvard Business Review (One of my favourite places to go lol)

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Sufficient Returns at Acceptable Risk

VC funds have investors in large institutions like pension funds, insurance companies and financial giants. They place only a small fraction of their funds into startups and high-risk investments.

More than good people or good ideas, VCs look for good industries to invest in.

Attractive Returns for the VC

Funds are structured to guarantee partners a comfortable income while they work to generate those returns. 

The venture capital partners agree to return all of the investors’ capital before sharing in the upside. However, the fund typically pays for the investors’ annual operating b...

Asset Management Managers

Asset Management Managers

Asset manaement is a service that is offered by financial institutions that cater to high net-worth individuals, government entities, corporations, and institutional investors such as colleges and pension funds.

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