Despite the overwhelming risks associated with Venture Capital, there is one common way that individuals involved in this high-stakes funding utilize to ensure a slight modicum of protection from frailure: diversification.
Many Venture Capitalists invest strictly in companies that are in completely different industries and often different countries or cultures so that the risk of failure decreases.
Others use a more common sense approach to it and concentrate nearly all of their investments in an area that they have a certain level of experience with or expertise within.
Both approaches typically have some success since the failure rate is already so high, i.e., the Venture Capitalists expect to fail eight times out of ten and so if they succeed only two times out of ten they will still not only keep their fiscal heads above water, buth they may even achieve great success if they succed three times out of ten.