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Venture Capital “Orphans”: Exploring an Emerging Search Fund Investment Thesis

In The Trenches

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The Importance of the Power Law in Venture Capital

In today's entrepreneurial ecosystem, raising money from VCs is mistakenly seen as the first thing that one ought to do to get their companies off the ground. While VC is the right capital source for a small minority of companies, notably those who are likely to grow into an enterprise value of a billion dollars or more, it is decidedly the wrong source of money.

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