Lol if you invested in all of any venture capitalists deals many of them wouldnt do so well.
Considering the founders story is that he himself made a fortune off small caps to start the company, i wouldnt say that it would be a terrible idea to go to their small cap expo and take a look at who their picking and cherry pick from that list years later when ofs possible to see who has developed a real product/business model.
The majority of tech investments don't do well either its just that the few grandslam facebook/snapchat/etx etc. successes more than make up for those. Anyway... bonus main financier jmj actually makes an agreement with all companies they work with to never short the stock.