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Investing like a Poker Player

Professional poker players have developed a number of strategies to optimize their financial returns from playing hands with uncertain outcomes that are revealed over time. This sounds a lot like early stage venture capital investing. The future of a startup is initially uncertain, and gets clearer over time as the company succeeds or not. Can VC investors optimize their returns by following poker player strategies, including small antes to see each hand, discrimination on which hands to invest further on, and large raises on hands that develop well?

This talk covers the following questions and more:

  • Is investing more like cooking from a recipe or playing poker?
  • Why do so few venture deals become home runs?
  • Learnings from the Bessemer Ventures anti-portfolio
  • False positives and false negatives
  • The importance of diversification: playing many hands
  • Investing progressively more as you learn more
  • Managing investor/player psychology: the importance of rules
  • Pilot and scout investing: a form of ante
  • Q&A

Investing in Women, as an Angel or Through a VC Fund with Expat Professional and Business Women's Network International

Watch Expat Professional and Business Women’s Network International and Loyal VC in this informational webinar discussing gender imbalance in venture capital, how diversity is the key to success, and how to overcome investing bias resulting in financial freedom for women globally. 

This talk covers the following questions and more:

  • What are the private equity (PE), venture capital (VC) and angel asset classes?
  • Why do top investors include these private market assets in their portfolio?
  • Do women invest less in private markets, why and does it matter?
  • Why do women entrepreneurs systematically get excluded from funding?
  • Do women entrepreneurs offer better returns than men, and if so, why?
  • How should you change your investing approach to (also) fund women?
  • What is Loyal's approach to VC investing and the unique strategy behind it?
  • Q&A

The Secrets of VC and Angel Investing

Learn the fundamental math and other secrets of investing in startups, and how to avoid common pitfalls as an angel, and how to identify the right venture funds to invest in.

This talk covers the following questions and more:

  • What are the three sobering realities of VC and angel investing?
  • What is Loyal's approach to VC investing and the unique strategy behind it?
  • What is the fundamental math for making money in angel, VC and PE?
  • What is Loyal's Global Index VC, the returns to date and the unique strategy behind it?
  • Q&A

Does VC have to be an illiquid asset class?

Venture capital is famously known as an asset class with the potential for exceptional returns, so long as the investor is willing to pay the necessary costs in effort and illiquidity. Does it have to be that way?

This talk covers the following questions and more:

  • The underlying reality driving VC illiquidity
  • How VC funds structure to look after their interests
  • Negative liquidity (or capital calls)
  • Which investor class VCs structure for
  • Secondary funds or end of life liquidity
  • VC portfolio valuation: evidence or accuracy?
  • The hazards of blockchain and open trading funds
  • Q&A