The Venture Edge

I have good friends who may want to dispute the title of this blog because it certainly pops the bubble that is the accelerator craze that I’ve talked about before (see “Accelerators – do the math”), not to mention the research-based view that having VC money signals to others that your venture is likely destined for success. But in this case, my title is backed up by recent research coming out of Harvard Business School. Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer, claims that three-quarters of U.S. venture-backed firms don’t return their investors’ capital.