Sales for Startups: Power Law Pipeline

People in the venture capital industry will often speak of results conforming to a power law distribution. That means that only a handful (or even just one) of their investments will perform so exceedingly well that it will constitute the bulk of returns to investors. The flipside is that almost all of the investments a VC makes will not result in any appreciable return. To use a baseball analogy, they need a grand slam in order to stay in business.

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