A VC: Taking Risk and Mitigating Risk

I haven't been blogging much - a little too busy, but this post from Fred Wilson made me think. What other ways are there to reduce risk?

A VC:

What we want to do in the venture capital business is take a lot of risk (which should be rewarded with a low entry valuation) and then actively mitigate the risk we took as much as we can (thereby reducing the risk for future investors and increasing the valuation).

It's the same thing that entrepreneurs want to do. When they leave their safe job and go out on their own, they are taking a lot of risk. Their entry valuation should be zero, meaning they (collectively if they have partners) own 100% of the business for whatever startup capital they invest.