Funds taking a more concentrated approach and investing in fewer companies most likely are assuming that one of their investments has an extremely large outcome while the rest either go to zero or whose exits are much more modest. This is called the power law dynamic and historically, this can be seen happening often in venture capital. Funds takin... See more
For early-stage investing, I believe that the small flat partnership is the best structure if the goal is to produce high return on capital funds. Here are some reasons why this model is superior for early-stage investing:- At the early stage, investors must bet on teams and ideas that have not been proven. The biggest winners almost always come fr... See more
VC is a Power Law business which means only a few cos deliver most of the returns - David Clark from VenCap breaks it down with data on 11.350 companies from 259 funds from 1986 - 2018. Only 1.1% out of 11,350 cos returned the whole fund!
David Clark responded to my tweet that median fund size for fund returners was $350M and many funds >$1b