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The VC Woulda Coulda Shoulda List

It’s nice to see honest VC’s who don’t just brag about their hits but admit their misses, too.  Josh Kopelman just did it again, having turned down an investment in Right Media which got acquired by Yahoo for $680M last week.  His previous big miss was Youtube.

Of course his firm, First Round Capital hasn’t been around long enough to get anywhere close to Bessemer Venture Capital’s Anti-Portfolio:  the list of big misses includes Apple Computer, eBay, FedEx, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lotus, Paypal … just to name a few.  Bessemer Chief Blogger David Cowan writes about it in several posts.

After all, as we all know, VC’s are in the lottery business smile_zipit

 

Comments

  1. Zoli – maybe you shoul dpost a shouldn’ta. couldn’ta, wouldn’ta list

    world.com anyone?????

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