Daniel Scherlis

Daniel Scherlis is an author affiliated with Harvard Business School who co-developed the Venture Capital Method for valuing high-risk, long-term investments alongside William A. Sahlman. Their seminal work on this valuation methodology was published by Harvard Business School in 1987 as a background note. The method involves forecasting a future value and discounting it back to the present using a high discount rate, and it remains a foundational framework in venture capital education.