
Venture Populist is the online resource for investors and investment professional to explore portfolio allocations to investments characterized by their probability of positve asymmetrical outcomes; positively-skewed risk/reward ratios that can be achieved via investments such as venture capital, private equity, direct (angel) private investment in start-ups and emerging private and operating cash-flow businesses, private real estate, private debt, franchises, as well as, publicly-traded emerging growth companies, (long volatility) option strategies and other highly-specialized investment strategies perhaps employed by some hedge funds, managed futures and market-timers.
Venture Populist was created for investors and their advisors that seek to enhance their portfolio’s investment returns through allocations to private investments.
The Venture Populist Manifesto maintains that;
- Modern Portfolio Theory, traditional asset-allocation models and buy-and-hold investing have been materially discredited over the past 80 years.
- Black swans do exist and most portfolios are unprepared for them.
- Asset class correlations are not static.
- Stocks have not delivered their anticipated risk premium.
- Liquidity, safety of principal, income and positive asymmetric outcomes are the most important criteria in building better investment portfolios
Moreover, private investment is the single largest creator of private wealth. With proper dedication, individual investors and their advisors can educate themselves to become more familiar with best practices in evaluating and allocating to private investment opportunities.
Venture Populist advocates investor education and the legislation of regulatory and tax policies that maintain a marketplace which enables individual investors to pursue the creation of private wealth through private investment.
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Mr. Joseph,
I currently teach entrepreneurship at the University of Florida (adjunct) and work for a small business (full time). Over the years I have developed a “unique” process for valueing early stage companies while working for an incubator. I presented papers describing this technique in 2007 (Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Glasgow, Scotland) and again in 2010 (US Assoc of Small Business and Entrerpeneurship, Nashville).
Would you be interested in reviewing the paper? I certainly would enjoy your perspective.
Best Regards,
Chip Vara