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The best performing early-stage funds always do better than the best performing growth-stage funds because they get in earlier at lower valuations.
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If you go back and look at the industry statistics and returns of growth-stage funds as a whole vs. early-stage funds as a whole, the returns over time tend to be quite similar.
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The NASDAQ Composite beats later and expansion stage funds and all the public indexes beat early and multi-stage funds.
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Provide tax incentives to create locally-managed angel funds and seed and early-stage capital focused on minority high-growth entrepreneurs.
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The Office of Science, which funds critical early-stage energy innovation research, would see a 20% decline in its budget.
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The agency which would be hardest hit would be the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which funds both the riskiest and most transformative, early-stage energy innovation projects, and would lose a staggering 75% of its budget under H.
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Unfortunately, the first thing to go when funds are scarce is early-stage investment.
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Mailman suggests that novice investors check out the Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund that invests in innovative leaders and social enterprises throughout the developing world, and TONIIC, a network of investors, entrepreneurs, funds and thought-leaders working to provide early-stage funding for global social enterprises.
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Accel will deploy its two new funds exclusively in China, one in early stage deals, one in later stage, pre-IPO deals.
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