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Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s (2015)

by yurisagalov on 11/13/19, 2:28 AM with 5 comments

  • by omarhaneef on 11/13/19, 4:11 PM

    Really interesting article.

    I am not convinced that we are more like the 80s than the 90s in terms of the types of risks VCs are willing to take, but I do appreciate that sense of the cycles in investing. (dearth of investors -> high returns -> everyone pours in -> returns dry up -> everyone leaves -> dearth of investors)

  • by dang on 11/13/19, 8:52 PM

  • by unknown_apostle on 11/14/19, 11:14 AM

    This kind of broad historical article is worth thousands of pages of financial press.