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Perhaps the ~10yr life-cycle of many funds started in 2007 have ended in disappointment for many LPs. I wish there were comprehensive statistics on GP performan
by TuringNYC 9y ago
Perhaps the ~10yr life-cycle of many funds started in 2007 have ended in disappointment for many LPs. I wish there were comprehensive statistics on GP performance.
- leggomylibro 9y agoIt would probably be very educational to see the same sort of post-mortems from those funds that we've seen from their investments.
- matte_black 9y agoWhat more could they say really? They already expect most of their investments to fail expect for a few big outliers.
- leggomylibro 9y ago"We expected X, Y happened, and we learned Z" would work for me.
- IMTDb 9y agoFailed VC fund : "We expected 90% of our investments to fail. 100% of them failed. We learned that choosing the right company to invest in is harder than we thought." Successful VC fund : "We expected 90% of our investments to fail. 80% of them failed. We learned that we are awesome at choosing good companies" Realty : They both gambled. One of them won, the other not so much.
- hkmurakami 9y agoHence Funds were being raised 2-3 years ago to record amounts. The amount of capital that can be deployed right now, if desired, should still be very large.