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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. And yet no provision was made to cover the cost of the inevitable failures. Those that don’t, don’t.