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" ... If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck, ... "
" ... In fact, it's downright impossible. The people are strange. The phones aren't working. The doctors appear to be quacks. Why is the sheriff so threatened by Ethan and unwilling to help him leave? Why is no one spooked about the dead body in the abandoned cabin? And why is there an electric fence surrounding the town's limits? ... "
" ... PE fund or a new type of VC fund? One or two failures will not kill a regular VC fund. In fact, VCs can succeed with 80% failures if they have a single home run. According to Patrick Chun of Juxtapose, the fund is taking risks like a VC fund and will be handicapped with one or two failures. Why? If they get a home run, which is what they seem to be shooting for with talk about building unicorns, wouldn’t they succeed with more failures? PE funds seldom have a home run with annual returns of 90-100% so they cannot afford too many failures. Juxtapose’s profile seems more like a VC fund and not a PE fund. It seems to be taking the risks of a VC fund and expecting the returns of a VC fund. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, perhaps it is one. ... "
" ... So in new and emerging fields, how can we know who to listen to? Here’s my helpful checklist to sort the professional service from the quacks. ... "
" ... Wait a minute! Aren’t those the guys who wrote so much about Value, Company Size, Quality, the impact of the Market? Isn’t that stuff real? That doesn’t sound like the work of quacks. ... "