“…Let p be the payment to VC's prevailing in the market, and p the payment a particular pair e and k negotiate as a function of p. Equilibrium is a fixed point. Let the value 5 Others (e.g., Mendoza and Vermeulen, 2011) emphasize liquidity, too, but do not model it formally, as we do, by building on recent developments in monetary theory. In Silveira and Wright (2010) we similarly studied the role of liquidity in the market for ideas, but that paper has little to do with the VC market.…”