Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev summarizes his large-scale research on how venture capitalists actually make decisions: what they weight (team vs market vs product), how many deals they screen, and how valuations are really set.
Data-backed corrective to fundraising folklore, from the leading academic studying VC decisions.
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