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8 articles tagged short.
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Position F — The Five-Minute Version
A short overview of Position F: a per-company estate election at death between settlement under the existing reform and a deferred-realisation regime capped at ten years. The proposal in five minutes, with the case for, the case against, and how it sits alongside the publication's existing design positions. The full long-form treatment is linked at the end.
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The 33%
Cooper, Woo and Dunkelberg surveyed 2,994 entrepreneurs in 1988. Thirty-three percent rated their probability of success at one hundred percent. They were not failing at probability theory. They were correctly registering the signal of the messaging environment they were immersed in. This piece is what that means.
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Why Fund Economics Need Overconfident Founders
A typical early-stage venture fund makes about twenty-five investments. Its returns to limited partners depend almost entirely on whether one or two turned out to be extreme outliers. What that math forces, in three steps, is the part this piece is about.
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What the Natural Experiment Shows
The US, UK, and EU run variants of the same venture model under different conditions. Comparing the three lets us ask which features of the system are intrinsic to running a venture model at all, and which are local-design choices that could be different. The line between the two changes what reform is possible.
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Both Halves of the Headline Are True
Venture capital is good for society and bad for most founders. Readers who hear that sentence often assume one of the two halves must be wrong. Both are documented in the empirical literature. The trick of holding them at the same time is the work the longer pieces do; this piece is the door.
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Venture Capital Is Good for Society and Bad for Most Founders
Venture capital is good for society and bad for most founders. Both halves are documented in the empirical literature. Most writing about VC handles one half or the other; this piece handles both.
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The Wrong Winners Write the Books
Founder advice is not only survivor-biased. It is filtered toward the survivors most certain that their outcome was repeatable. The classic survivorship filter is well known: failures do not write the books. Two further filters operate on the survivor cohort itself — and they are what give the recruitment narrative its tone before any individual VC, accelerator, or founder-coach does anything. This piece names all three.
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The Whole Question, in Five Minutes
Anyone who wants the question and the contested arguments in five minutes. About 600 words. The phone-screen version.