This table presents average net returns conditioned on the type of exit for the project. The net return
equals (PV Base multiple)(1/YearsHeld)−1. Seventeen projects with durations of less than one year are
excluded from the averages. This table shows the net return rather than the log return in order to
include firms with payoffs of zero. The exit type is determined by the investor’s response to the
question: “Type of exit event” with the choices below. The category “Missing” includes investments
with computable payoffs and for which the type of exit is missing in the data. Data are from the Angel
Investor Performance Project (Wiltbank and Boeker, 2007b). There are a total of 588 observations,
of which 419 are exited, spanning the period from 1972 through 2007. Of those 419 observations, 11
observations have durations listed in the data as 0 years, for which net returns and log returns cannot
be calculated. In addition, 117 projects have durations of a year or more but have payoffs of zero.