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tl;dr: Tired of being the only person on the couch who doesn't understand the jokes in Silicon Valley? We've got you covered. The venture capital industry
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A few years back I blogged about the hard data behind venture outcomes and the challenge of creating a venture portfolio that produces strong returns. That blog post - which turned into one of my most read posts ever - grew out of a study done by Correlation Ventures showing the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings during the years 2004-2013 as well as some of my own observations. The Correlation study produced a lot of interesting data and showed that the typical "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" model that many VCs talk about was significantly more optimistic than the reality of typical venture returns. The vast majority (almost 2/3rds) of venture financings fail to return capital. And only about 4% produce a return of greater than 10x. Pretty humbling. He...
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Senior Associate/Manager of Media, E-Commerce & Technology VC Job at Cantor Ventures in NYC (posted 6/30/15) Associate VC Job at OpenView Venture Partners in Boston (posted 6/30/15) Analyst VC Job at Saints Capital in San Francisco (posted 6/26/15) Associate VC Job at Lewis & Clark Ventures in St. Louis (posted 6/26/15) Portfolio Manager VC Job...
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Sand Hill Road is a 5.6 mile stretch of roadway that cuts straight through Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Woodside. Here's a list of venture capital firms that call Sand Hill Road home.
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