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Private equity and venture capital spur discussion in national political campaigns, in debates about tax policy, and, at least in the case of venture capital, in thinking about the role of entrepreneurship in university culture. Yet despite considerable press coverage about private equity (“PE”) and venture capital (“VC”) writ large, comparatively little has been written about how they differ from one another.