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A comment on VC failure rates.

Re:VC failure rates by sethjohn on Friday November 30, 2007 @12:45PM (#85054)
How will the YC model compare?

I'd guess a higher percentage of failures and higher average return on the successful companies. (It's a lot easier to get 50X when you only invest $15K to start with!)

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Re:VC failure rates by pchristensen on Friday November 30, 2007 @06:00PM (#85135)
From what PG has said (can't find the thread), most of the companies are still intact and the success rate is much higher than the average for VCs.
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Re:VC failure rates by sethjohn on Friday December 07, 2007 @03:22PM (#87109)
Yeah, that could be right. Of course, "intact" doesn't mean that they will have a profitable exit.
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