Venture Selection Decision Table

The Venture Selection Decision Table, more formally known as, the Weighted Average Subjective Probability of Investment Potential, is a tool designed to summarize and conclude your analysis – with a decision to accept or reject the company being the end result.

For a description of how to use this table, please see my white paper, A Simple and Effective Economic Forecasting Model. While the white paper was written for economic forecasting, the approach is the same.

We are still experimenting with this model on early-stage company analysis, so we don’t have a definitive cutoff score for acceptance or rejection yet – and indeed, we probably never will as the intent of models like this is to provide insight into the important factors affecting a decision, not giving a specific cutoff score for acceptance or rejection. But you can use your judgement in interpreting the resulting score.