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Kahneman System 1 and System 2 in financial charting

A fund report is read by two minds — the fast one that judges the shape in a second, and the slow one that audits the numbers. The TVPI Spectrum® is engineered for both, and makes them agree.

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A practitioner's variwide cookbook

Less philosophy, more "show me." What to read off a TVPI Spectrum® in ten seconds — concentration, realized vs paper, capital weight, the write-off tail, the portfolio line.

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Gestalt in fund-performance reporting

The TVPI Spectrum®'s design choices are not decoration — they are perception. The Gestalt principles that make a fund's shape readable at a glance.

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Why TVPI deserves its own picture

Fund-performance multiples are a different visualization problem from public-market returns. Why the standard bar chart hides the size of the bet — and why the variwide diagram fixes it.

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The power law in venture capital portfolios

A twelve-year picture of where venture returns actually come from. Why mean and median both mislead — and what the TVPI Spectrum® shows that they cannot.

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