As people, we experience life at the human-scale. This gives us pretty good intuitions for things that are roughly our size and speed. Looking at mountains, we can get an intuitive sense of their mass because they’re still more or less at our scale. This effect starts to weaken when we look across the ocean. It’s hard, but not impossible,…
A recent study published in Drug Discovery Today by Thomas Thurston and Hubert Truebel found low odds of success for biotech startups that raise more than four funding rounds before starting their clinical trials. Highlights: Analysis of 233 biotech startups at various stages, and - separately - 238 biotech startups that were ultimately acquired or had and IPO. There was…
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How Big Data Insights are Disrupting Venture Capital Learn how a leading venture capital firm is using big data and AI to identify disruptive startups worldwide. By using data and statistics to disrupt the way traditional venture capital has been done, the firm is seeing more wins and fewer losses while dramatically reducing costs. It’s also changing what it means…
"When it comes to successfully identifying the likely success of companies, and steering an effective investment strategy, there is one organization that appears to be well ahead of the pack. The company is WR Hambrecht and the person guiding their analysis and decision-making process utilizing a proprietary software system he developed more than a decade ago is Thomas Thurston, Partner…
Clayton Christensen was exceptional, both personally and professionally. He impacted the world on many levels, and today I’d like to focus on how a narrow aspect of his work has proven to be amongst the most profound: profit-seeking. At its most basic, Christensen restated what we already know – businesses want to make money. (Although that’s sort of like saying…
This Saturday, Dec 21st at 1:30 pm ET on CNBC, WR Hambrecht + Co and Growth Science will be featured on Advancements hosted by Ted Danson. Bringing advanced technologies into the world of venture capital is changing the industry by combining the best of both humans and machines to help investors better find top startups, and to level the playing…
In this special guest feature, Bob Fletcher from Verne Global reflects on the recent HPC and AI on Wall Street conference. "While obviously the New York financial community was the focus for this conference one of the best presentations came from out-of-town. Thomas Thurston, CTO at San Francisco based WR Hambrecht Ventures shared an amazing use case for DNN training.…
Venture capital is a “hit business.” The relatively few hits pay for the flops. And it's the tantalizing possibility of a mega-hit that animates the industry, that keeps investors dreaming, prospecting and writing checks. For venture capitalists, it’s the hits and the mega-hits that make the high flop rate tolerable. But is frequent venture failure inescapable? Could a probabilistic approach…
