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Venture Capital

In Early Stage Investing, Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse?

August 31, 2013 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

The horse is too small, the jockey too big, the trainer too old, and I’m too dumb to know the difference. – Charles Howard, owner of Seabiscuit addressing comments about his horse, Seabiscuit and the team of people he had assembled to train and race Seabiscuit. Red Pollard was Seabiscuit’s jockey and Tom Smith was […]

Filed Under: How and Why, Long Read, Venture Capital Tagged With: Early Stage Startups, Venture Capital

Ceteris Paribus: When A Startup’s History Really Matters

August 18, 2013 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Once in a while I meet a startup that makes me scratch my head in bewilderment. At first glance everything looks fine, but I can’t help but wonder if I might be missing something. In such instances I think to myself; Is there some important detail that is not so obvious, and that is concealed […]

Filed Under: How and Why, Venture Capital Tagged With: Due Diligence, Early Stage Startups, Historical Analysis, Venture Capital

A Reexamination: Can Venture Capitalists be Value Investors?

August 11, 2013 by Brian Laung Aoaeh

Let’s begin with some disclaimers. I have never actually been a value investor. I have also never made individual picks of stocks traded on the public markets. I was completely oblivious of stock markets until soon after I had graduated college in 2001. Before I arrived in the United States in 1997, I would not […]

Filed Under: Investing, Long Read, Value Investing, Venture Capital Tagged With: Early Stage Startups, Economic Moat, Margin of Safety, Value Investing, Venture Capital

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