The Optimal Portfolio of Start-up Firms in Venture Capital Finance

Vesa Kanniainen and Christian Keuschnigg

University of Helsinki, Department of Economics from Department of Economics

Abstract: A venture capitalist faces a trade-off between the extent of managerial advice allocated to each start-up and the total number of firms advised. Diminishing returns to advice per firm call for a larger portfolio. As advice gets diluted, further expansion of the portfolio eventually becomes unprofitable.

Keywords: VENTURE CAPITAL; MANAGEMENT; FINANCING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 G24 G32 L19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2000
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