Bhushan: Right fund sizing is crucial to target 5-6x net returns
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Brij Bhushan of Prime Venture Partners explains his fund management philosophy and return requirements in venture capital.
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“We believe that the best play to venture cap, play the VC business, is to have the right size fund, right, because at the core of a VC, our first job is to be money managers, which is that we take money from someone, and our obligation is to return multiple of that in 10 to 12 years. So if you are playing that game, you have to design the game such that your odds of returning five to six X net fund is high.”
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