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August 2010
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Venture Populist: Terms of Engagement for Private Venture Advisors Angel and venture investors often have the option to determine to what extent they intend to contribute professionally to their new portfolio holding. |
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Putting a Price on a Promise How do private venture investors assign a value to a new company at the startup stage? |
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September 2009
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Venture Populist: Variable Liquidity Positive asymmetrical outcomes also refers to the appeal of venture and early-stage investments where multiple liquidity and exit outcomes are possible. |
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December 2002
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No Mercy Are VCs sucking the life out of your business? Maybe you're better off without them. |
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March 2010
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Venture Populist: The "First-Mover Advantage" Myth When evaluating private ventures, it is best to eschew first-to-market business models in favor of better, faster, or cheaper followers. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? Four venture capitalists explain how they evaluate potential investments. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
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Garnering Angels Sure, you may have ventured for VC, but raising angel capital takes a different kind of skill. |
Bio-IT World
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly VCs will not support a sector where consistent compelling exits are not evident. Unfortunately, the bio-IT field still suffers from this. |
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February 1, 2011
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A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture. |
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Beware the Arrogant Venture Capitalist Their weaknesses may vary, but there's typically a common characteristic not-great venture capitalists share: arrogance. |
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Venture Populist: The Venture Investor's Put Option How to increase the range of returns for private investments. |
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July 2010
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Venture Populist: Founder's Skin-in-the-Game Remember Jobs and Wozniak? Gates and Allen? Don't assume a founder's lack of committed capital to be a stumbling block to a venture's success. |
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February 2010
Jeff Joseph |
Venture Populist: Venture Hits and Exit Wounds Venture Capitalists achieve their highs from the opium of OPM (that is, Other People's Money) ...so even a bad trip is still a free trip. |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Michael A. Greeley |
Who Wants to Be a VC? The objective is to stay relevant to a venture firm while the industry contracts. Develop the case that you can help create great companies (and great returns) because you have built a Rolodex and an ability to identify patterns of success. |
Entrepreneur
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Tracy T. Lefteroff |
After The Flood With the flow of VC funding slowed to a trickle, let our list of the top 100 VC funds be your divining rod. |
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Darren Dahl |
Facing the Capital Gap There's plenty of capital out there. So why are so many companies struggling to raise money? |
Entrepreneur
May 2005
John F. Ince |
Back in Black The Venture Capital industry is fattening up again -- but what does this mean for the entrepreneur? For the short term anyway, an increase in the supply of available capital. |
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Emily Barker |
Great Companies Started for $1,000 or Less Forget venture capital. By dint of ingenuity, doggedness, and chutzpah, it's still possible to bootstrap a company -- and thrive |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? Entrepreneurs are often motivated by the potential of money and control, but very few ever achieve both. |
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May 1, 2010
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An Insider's Guide to Venture Capital Financing Jeffrey Bussgang, author of Mastering the VC Game and a principal at Flybridge Capital Partners, on how to get funded. |
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C.J. Prince |
In-Out Privileges Is your business a revolving door for limited partners? As long as the money is there, don't worry if they come and go as they please... |
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August 2008
Tracy T. Lefteroff |
High Rollers Venture capitalists showed entrepreneurs the big bucks in 2007. Could one of our top VC firms be looking for a business like yours this time around? |
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Amy Feldman |
Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs. |
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February 2009
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VC vs. Angel Money: A Primer Don't blow a financing opportunity by approaching the wrong source. |
The Motley Fool
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Gregory Huang |
Venture Mechanics Opens "Berkubator" for Tech Startups From Seattle, a new way to nurture tiny tech companies. |
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Distressed Asset Joint Ventures: A Winning Trifecta? This model can help banks maximize the return on their growing inventory of real estate-owned and troubled loans. |
Entrepreneur
May 2003
C.J. Prince |
Ray of Hope? VCs are optimistic about the coming year but are still holding on to their purse strings. |
Fast Company
May 2005
Alison Overholt |
Venturing Forth Kathy Sherbrooke, co-founder of Circles, one of the few venture-backed companies on our list, on what she learned about going after venture capital. |
Investment Advisor
July 1, 2011
Jeff Joseph |
Extreme Networking: Adding High-Net-Worth Clients Becoming the sponsor and host of an entrepreneurial salon series is an effective networking and practice-building approach for wealth advisors who wish to expand their network of high- and ultra-high-net-worth investors. |
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May 1, 2011
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An Appetizing Investment: Second Course If you advise a high-net-worth clientele, it is nearly inevitable that one of your clients will be pitched to invest in a restaurant startup by a friend or family member. |
Bio-IT World
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Michael Greeley |
What Do We Do Now? Like it or not, the supply of capital is an important ingredient in the continued development of the bio-IT industry. Appreciating and understanding the forces currently at work in the VC marketplace can only help in raising capital. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Breaking Through a Growth Stall Many companies get stuck on a plateau, unable to grow and burning through cash at a frightening rate. Frank V. Cespedes discusses how focusing on the right customers can generate growth again. |
Bio-IT World
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Michael Greeley |
Too Much Informatics Did bioinformatics companies forget about the fundamental law of supply and demand? |
Inc.
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Chafkin & Gossage |
Need Money? The private financial markets are dynamic and at times difficult to navigate. A report on the latest trends. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Michael Greeley |
The Upside of the Downturn Biotech entrepreneurs need to rethink how they raise capital and craft business model frameworks. |
Entrepreneur
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Mark Henricks |
Answering the Call Trust corporations to know when the VC game is ready for new players. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 2, 2009
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs When it comes to entrepreneurship, nothing says success like a track record of previous wins. |
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November 2003
David Worrell |
The Big Guns Getting corporate investors on your side can certainly boost your business. Learn how corporate venture capitalists think -- and how to set your sights on landing one. |
Bio-IT World
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Michael Greeley |
Finally, the Bottom Has pharma bought all the solutions it needs? The flood of genomic data indicates no. |
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May 2002
C.J. Prince |
Springing Back It's not a mirage. The end to the long VC investment dry spell is within your reach... |
AskMen.com
Michael Estrin |
How To Finance Your Company If you're starting your own company or looking to expand your operations, here are some things you need to know before you go hunting for funding. |
AskMen.com
August 8, 2002
Ian Harrison |
How To Write A Business Plan: Part II Now that you have a solid core of legitimate data to offer a prospective financier, the time has come to build a sound business plan around it. Remember who your audience is and how the tool can be maximized in the future: both to secure capital and as a business guide. |
Inc.
September 2007
Max Chafkin |
Who's Behind TheFunded.com? A new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs. |
Fast Company
Vivian Giang |
Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013. |
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Alix Stuart |
Just Call Me Angel Smaller companies in search of cash have a new source: big companies. |
Wired
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Gary Rivlin |
The Roots of Bust 2.0 Suddenly, venture capital is growing on trees. But the cash glut could crash the Valley again. |
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Staying Light on Your Toes Venture capitalist Mark Suster discusses the power of charisma and the ability to listen. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2012
Chris Hill |
This Is Apple's Big Advantage Niko Waesche is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and author of the book Simply Seven: Seven Ways to Create a Sustainable Internet Business. In this audio interview he analyzes the greatest threat facing Apple. |
Entrepreneur
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Brad Feld |
Perfect Your Pitch If you want to secure venture capital, avoid these 8 mistakes. |
