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Many of America's tech startups are funded by venture capital. But why on earth would any venture capitalist invest in a risky, unproven new company with a risky, unproven new technology? Answer: High risk goes hand in hand with high returns. Most of the new companies will fail, but the ones who succeed will be huge, more than making up for all the failures. Well, that's the theory anyway. If venture capital is taking all that risk and not making stellar returns, then something is severely broken. Friday's finance seminar here at UMich was by Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago's Booth Business School, who presented a paper he's writing with Robert Harris and Tim Jenkinson entitled "Private Equity: What Do We Know?". In ... Continue reading →
Each year, I keep a running list of the most exceptional nonfiction that I encounter while publishing my twice-weekly newsletter The Best of Journalism. Along with my curating work for Byliner, this hoovering of great stories affords me the opportunity to read as many impressive narratives as any single person possibly can. The annual result is my Best of Journalism List, now in its fourth year. I could not, of course, read every worthy piece published during the year. But everything that follows deserves wider attention. This year's collection is timed to the one-year anniversary of Byliner, which published Jon Krakauer's groundbreaking investigation, Three Cups of Deceit, last April. It was the first of two dozen Byliner Originals, original works of nonfiction and fiction written ... Continue reading →
