I've been trying to understand the very basics of venture capital, as a relative finance-illiterate. Some stuff I've learned from looking at return on investment numbers:
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An exceptional single *company* can have a higher rate of return, though: Amazon has been growing at an average rate of 36% a year since it IPO'd. If you had to pick between being Jeff Bezos and being a typical VC, on purely money grounds, you'd want to be Bezos.
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It's apparently possible to be a VC firm that raises large funds and underperforms; DCM Ventures is in the top 10 firms for largest funds raised and the IRRs I could find are as follows: DCM II: 0.20% DCM III: 2.1% DCM IV: 4.89% DCM V: 18.69% DCM VI: 3%
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