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How do you hug the market in the venture capital world?
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You can't; it's very idiosyncratic.
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If you're doing early-stage venture investing
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you're backing entrepreneurs and ideas
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and they're operating out of their garage.
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I mean,this romantic notion of what goes on in Silicon Valley
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actually still holds true in a lot of cases
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but there's absolutely no way,
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as a venture capital investor,
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you could index the venture capital market.
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If you look at the behavior of groups of active managers
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and the dispersion of returns,