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A bet dressed as a strategy, daring you to call it a plan.
means To venture is to risk something—money, comfort, or yourself—on an uncertain undertaking, or the bold undertaking itself.
from A clipped form of 'adventure,' which came through Old French 'aventure' from Latin 'adventura'—'things about to happen,' from 'advenire,' to arrive. English lopped off the front, and by doing so kept the gambler's edge: 'venture' is what 'adventure' becomes when there's money on the table and the outcome is genuinely in doubt.
- latin root
- From adventura, meaning what is about to happen
- fund math
- Most VC returns come from one moonshot win
- early use
- Once meant merchant ships risked on uncertain seas
- failure norm
- Roughly three in four startups never return capital
silicon valley — region that produced apple, google, facebook, and tesla through venture capital funding
sequoia capital — venture firm founded 1972 that invested in apple, google, youtube, instagram, whatsapp
andreessen horowitz — venture capital firm founded 2009 that has invested in airbnb, slack, lyft, and figma