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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Venture Capital Returns

Jul

31

2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Expected Returns

statistics · valuation

Studies Find Angels Significantly Impact Success Of Funded Companies – Forbes

Jun

1

2015

. . . . .Two studies show real evidence that startups backed by strong angels really do better than their counterparts that fail to get such funding. The studies by Harvard Business School professors William Kerr and Josh Lerner and MIT Sloan School of Management professor Antoinette Schoar (along with Stanislav Sokolinsky and Karen Wilson) ...
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Angel Groups · Angel Investing Statistics · Angels · Exit Strategy

Crowd Funding Has Not Killed Angel Investing Yet

May

9

2014

 Crowd Funding Has Not Killed Angel Investing Yet Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like and , as well as the ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Web/Micro Loans & Crowdfunding

Victoria Silchenko: Equity Crowdfunding: Next Generation of Angel Investors Is Not Sorry to Disrupt

May

7

2013

Nikola Tesla wrote once, “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” I can see this being quoted by any supporter of equity based crowdfunding (or crowdinvesting) — an innovative online tool that would give you a legitimate right to own a stake in a company you choose to invest ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Web/Micro Loans & Crowdfunding

A Simulation of Angel Investing, Part 2

May

16

2012

This is a follow-up to my post A simulation of angel investing. Several readers commented on Hacker News that my first stab at a simulation was misleading because it showed negative average returns for low deal sizes, when in fact expected returns should be not only positive but constant regardless of deal size. They are ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Expected Returns

investing statistics · monte carlo · statistics

A Simulation of Angel Investing

May

16

2012

In angel investing, it’s the extreme distribution of payoffs that keeps things interesting. If anything, it resembles buying a deep out-of-the-money call option, but with nonlinearity. If you win big you might find yourself in on the ground floor of the next Google or Facebook. That’s incredibly unlikely, but still possible. More likely, you’ll end ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Expected Returns

investing statistics · monte carlo · number of deals

Kauffman Foundation Bashes VCs For Poor Performance, Urges LPs To Take Charge

May

9

2012

The Kauffman Foundation, which has ties to the venture industry, has issued a damning study of the business that addresses long-running concerns about poor performance and concludes that the limited partners who invest in funds have no one but themselves to blame. The report, “We Have Met The Enemy…And He Is Us,” draws on lessons ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Expected Returns · Venture Capital

expected returns · irr

The reality of returns on angel investment

May

5

2012

A majority of all new, angel-backed companies fail completely, so if you invest in only one company, the odds are that you will LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY, not just “not make a profit”. Several studies and mathematical simulations have shown that it takes investing the same amount of money consistently into at least 20-25 companies before your ...
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Angel Investing Statistics

angel returns · irr

Study Indicates Follow-on Funding Gives Lower Returns for Angel Investors

Apr

16

2012

In 2007, Professor Rob Wiltbank reported in Returns to Angel Investors in Groups that angel investors made follow-on investment in about 30% of their invested companies. It was surprising for me to learn that follow-on investments correlated with lower returns, that is, angels that made follow-on angel investments saw returns of 1.4X their investment, while ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Common Deal Mistakes · Expected Returns

bill payne · follow-on funding

‘Angel’ Investors Exist Outside Tech Elite, Too

Feb

5

2012

Many “angel” investors, who put their own money into small start-ups at a very early stage, previously worked at technology icons that are known for minting millionaires, like Google Inc. and PayPal. But Silicon Valley’s angel-investor scene is far from homogenous, new data show. AngelList, a San Francisco start-up that connects accredited investors with companies ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Finding Angels

Angellist · silicon valley

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