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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. The philosophical divide is this: When VCs invest in an early-stage start-up, they recognize that odds are, the company will fail. All of this is right, as far as it goes.