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Public Pension Fund · Switzerland 🇨🇭 · The Scarcity Mindset · monthly decision style
Capital is finite, and I understand the desire to limit variables. But this one-year window, even if it simplifies analysis, ignores that deep innovation takes time. A biotech startup, for example, might need several years of clinical validations before raising additional funds, making this metric too restrictive to assess its true potential.
Les startups sont évaluées sur leur capacité à obtenir un financement de série A dans les 12 mois suivant leur premier tour de financement.
Cette période d'observation standardisée permet de contrôler les biais environnementaux dans l'évaluation du succès des startups.
Un réseau d'investissement en capital-risque est modélisé comme un réseau d'information hétérogène horodaté.
Chaque arête représente un événement d'investissement d'un investisseur vers une entreprise à un moment donné.
Conséquences
Setting a one-year window for subsequent funding is an oversimplification; liquidity is too rare for that.
Actual funding cycles depend on many factors; time is a finite and valuable resource that cannot be standardized.
A year might be a luxury for some startups, while others, like those in biotech, require much longer to reach their milestones.
This single window does not account for the variable lifespan of resources available to these companies.
For example, a Swiss startup focused on deeptech might need 2 to 3 years to demonstrate the viability of its technology before attracting a second significant round, making the one-year limit totally unrealistic.
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This is a fascinating observation. Indeed, when a company, our "main character" here, must navigate a market where the rules of the game constantly change, its selective follow-up strategy can turn from an asset into a burden.
Imagine a moment when repatriation clauses are suddenly revised to become more restrictive; suddenly, the ability to reinvest in promising companies erodes, regardless of the initial decision quality.
Pushing for maximum requires us to go beyond statistical observations to focus on the levers of action that unlock the full expression of potential.
The idea that power law returns are a 'driver' is an oversimplification; it is a consequence, not a proactive driving force.
True performance stems from decision-making quality and rigor in allocation, notably the ability to identify and invest in companies that can navigate regulatory constraints and reach a global scale.
For example, focusing solely on the 'power law' as a driver of venture capital strategy may cause us to overlook thorough due diligence and active management crucial for cross-border flows and policies in mainland China that create unique return asymmetries in Hong Kong.
Where does it fail? Classifying power-law returns as a simple subcategory of venture portfolio performance factors is a weak link.
It masks their fundamental role as a structural constraint, a true failure mode if ignored in fund design.
In the Cayman Islands, the legal structuring of investment vehicles is directly shaped by this asymmetric distribution, long before operational decisions.
Without this understanding, diversification strategies dilute the potential for exceptional returns, which is the raison d'être of venture capital; consider funds that underestimated the impact of a single unicorn on the overall IRR.
Where is the full expression of return maximization if we simply accept that power law returns are an underlying category?
It is not an universal truth that the power law encompasses key factors; in less mature markets, decision quality takes precedence.
For example, in Hong Kong, access to the Chinese market and regulatory constraints can limit the full expression of the massive returns of the power law, making local opportunity selection paramount.
Pushing for the summit requires understanding that the hierarchy of performance factors is not static.
The upper limit of ROI is conditional on market realities and not just a theoretical deduction.
Exactly! This one-year window is like imposing a single rule on a game with thousands of different variables. Imagine the character of the deep tech entrepreneur; their narrative arc is inherently broader, with R&D phases stretching well beyond this arbitrary limit. For them, the story is just beginning when others have already reached their final chapter.
Les rendements du capital-risque suivent des distributions de loi de puissance extrêmes.
Ils ne suivent pas les distributions statistiques normales habituelles.
Comprendre ces profils de rendement asymétriques est essentiel.
Cela permet de construire des stratégies de portefeuille de capital-risque rationnelles.
La qualité des décisions et le plafond de retour sur investissement sont cruciaux.
Raisons
Where is the most profitable expression, if we only say that the power law encompasses performance?
The reality is that the impact of these asymmetric distributions is heavily conditioned by regulatory context and capital flows.
In Hong Kong, for example, navigating SFC policies or the HKEX listing channels can alter the distribution of returns beyond just the "quality of investment decisions".
An active portfolio should seek asymmetry by exploiting unique arbitrages and opportunity windows offered by links with China.
Not doing so means leaving money on the table, like ignoring offshore RMB liquidity movements that unlock higher returns.