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Cambridge Associates
Company blog · cambridgeassociates.com/insighteconomicsbusiness
Cambridge Associates is the company blog at cambridgeassociates.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Investment research firm whose venture capital studies and index data HN commenters cite for industry performance figures, such as the claim that the top ten firms generate 90% of returns.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We build custom investment portfolios to meet each client’s unique needs and help achieve their investment goals.
What Hacker News says?
A November 2015 Cambridge Associates study: "The widely held belief that 90% of venture industry performance is generated by just the top ten firms is a catchy but unsupported claim" http://www.cambridgeassociates.com/our-insights/research/ven...
Comment linking /our-insights/research/venture-capital-disrupts-itself-breaking-the-concentration-curse/
on “The 99% (of startups)”Submitted Climate Tech: The Maturation to a Competitive, Returns-Focused Investment Sector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor industry wide statistics, something like https://www.cambridgeassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/... is pretty good. All returns there are gross, not net, but they show top quartile funds returning 15-20% gross over the last decade, varying a bit year to year. For specific fund performance, I don't know of anything public. Most of the big names have had some funds with >20% returns, usually as they get bigge…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2018/05/WEB-2017-Q4-USVC-Benchmark-Book.pdf
on “How VC Works – A Beginner's Guide”Submitted Are Venture Returns About to Cycle? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYet another example of getting some things wrong in the article, and then some things wrong in the title, to end up with a basically dishonest piece of journalism. The article is based off of the "Cambridge Associates LLC U.S. Venture Capital Index." I see no reason to believe that measures the median venture fund--that would be a dumb way to construct an index--the responsible way to create an index is to weight by…
Comment linking /pdf/Venture%20Capital%20Index.pdf
on “Most venture capital funds lose money”Is that a given? I think that VC has slightly outperformed (or, at a minimum, are not "historically extraordinarily poor" versus) the broader market. https://www.cambridgeassociates.com/insight/building-winning...
Comment linking /insight/building-winning-portfolios-through-private-investments/
on “VC predicts the industry is heading for a massive and enduring contraction”