Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by Mark Anderson -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Deep Science Disruption -- 2. The U.S. Deep Science Innovation Ecosystem -- 3. Deep Science and the Evolution of American Venture Capital -- 4. Diversity Breakdown in Venture Investing --...

Start-up entrepreneurs are often commercially inexperienced. In giving managerial advice, venture capitalists can importantly enhance the success of innovative but highly risky ventures. The supply of experienced venture capitalists is not easily increased, however. When the rate of business...

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...