Understanding Venture Capital
A study of the structure of venture capital firms, and how the tech industry organizes around both its positives, and its negatives.
Luke Kanies
Founder, adviser, and strategist. Writing at lukekanies.com and second-publishing here.
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If You Take Venture Capital, You’re Forcing Your Company To Exit
To understand venture capital, you must understand the consequences of how VCs return capital to their investors
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Why the Most Successful VC Firms Keep Winning
The best companies seek out the most successful investors, and gains accumulate at the top
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One Investor Isn’t Enough
A company’s success is highly reliant on peer validation of investor decisions. This stunts diversity and must change if we want the best…
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Unicorns Distract Us from a Graveyard
Venture capital’s reliance on unicorns provides cover for the huge failure rate of startups, and investors make no effort to reduce it
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Venture Capital Is Built on Serendipity
Software has as much potential as electrification or steam power, but instead the industry ignores markets and whole classes of people…
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Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption
It’s time to develop new sources of capital for founders to help them solve their customer problems and avoid venture capital’s massive…
