Myhrvold's grand theme is that the U.S. needs an invention capital market--similar to venture capital for new businesses--to enable inventors to create hundreds of thousands more inventions each year than are being made today.

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But now that Chadha and his core team of three partners have split from Sequoia Capital India to focus on investing in public companies, the break-up spells a new era not only for the Goldman Sachs-trained investor but also for venture capital in the subcontinent market.

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Measured by medians, new issues backed by venture capital have a negative 16% absolute performance and a score of 51 relative to the market.

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