There's no such thing as an antiportfolio or "missed opportunities". You may as well say "why didn't I pick the correct lotto numbers". The answer is "because you didn't".
Why didn't I make every decision in my life the right decision? Answer: "because you didn't".
I could have made a billion dollars if I had know all the right stocks to pick. The VC antiportfolio is the same thing.
Proximity to an opportunity seems to make people feel a greater sense of that they "lost" the opportunity, but in fact that lost opportunity is precisely the same as the whole world full of other opportunities that the person could have taken at that moment.
> You may as well say "why didn't I pick the correct lotto numbers". The answer is "because you didn't".
Lotto numbers all look the same up front. Startups all look different, so a good VC can be better than a bad VC if they just know which differences to look for.
And thats their job to predict which startup will make the most money or produce most value. In capable of doing shows their weakness, so anti-portfolio is quite relevant IMHO.
There's no such thing as an antiportfolio or "missed opportunities". You may as well say "why didn't I pick the correct lotto numbers". The answer is "because you didn't".
Why didn't I make every decision in my life the right decision? Answer: "because you didn't".
I could have made a billion dollars if I had know all the right stocks to pick. The VC antiportfolio is the same thing.
Proximity to an opportunity seems to make people feel a greater sense of that they "lost" the opportunity, but in fact that lost opportunity is precisely the same as the whole world full of other opportunities that the person could have taken at that moment.