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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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Signal Strength With stronger marketing efforts, venture capital firms are making sure their message gets heard. |
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Small Towns, Big Money Looking for capital? a new study shows that small towns might just be a VC paradise. |
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Lines of Communication Should you let your employees talk directly to your VCs? |
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The Golden Egg Regardless of what term you use to describe the current economy, the fact remains that investors are sitting on a whole lot of cash. We know -- for 2 1/2 decades, we watched them make it... |
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Guardian Angels An angel group could be your startup's VC savior. |
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Answering the Call Trust corporations to know when the VC game is ready for new players. |
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When the Well Runs Dry This Texas entrepreneur dug deep to replace VC funds he lost unexpectedly. |
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Ray of Hope? VCs are optimistic about the coming year but are still holding on to their purse strings. |
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She Knows How to Play the Game The startup revolution is as much about the democratization of capital as it is about the creation of new technologies. So why do women-led companies still receive only 4.6% of all venture funding? |
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Venture Populist: Angels, Take Control of Your VC Financing With Puts and RBFs Angel investors and their advisors must become more creative with their financing structures if they hope to avoid the same fate as the current VC industry. |
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Think Like a VC, Act Like An Entrepreneur Getting employees to adopt both an entrepreneur's bias for action and a venture capitalist's talent for hard-nosed analysis is a challenge. But no one said excellence was easy. |
Bio-IT World
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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. |
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Gwen Moran |
The Voices of Venture Capital 4 leading venture capitalists offer their takes on the ups and downs of VC investment, what captures their attention and the best ways to seek out VC money. |
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Growing Pains Make sure your angel investors won't hold your business back when it's time to graduate to larger investors. |
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Where the Money Is Recent years have left venture capitalists awash in cash. Are start-ups getting more of it? |
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All Aboard? Is your company's concept so cutting edge that investors won't touch it? There are ways to add credibility to a far-out idea, however, getting their attention -- and their money. |
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Let's Have Some Funds! Two women entrepreneurs sound off on the ups and downs of finding VC funding. |
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Know When to Walk Away Don't ask venture capitalists for referrals if they say they're not interested. |
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Rare Commodity How some women are working hard for the money. |
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Find Yourself a World of Investors Need a VC with a certain je ne sais quoi? An international firm may fit the bill. |
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Who's Behind TheFunded.com? A new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs. |
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David Worrell |
Seed Money VC financing for early-stage companies is back in bloom. |
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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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It's Not Easy Investing Green With capital tight, experts warn to proceed with caution on your earth friendly investment strategy. |
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Venture Adventures First the good news: Venture capital is back. Now the bad news: Leading VC firms don't need your money. Read on to see how to succeed in the venture capital game today. |
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Is Your VC Into You? Know how to discern whether your VC gets it or if its time to look for financing elsewhere. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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HBS Entrepreneurs in Their Own Words The experiences and wisdom of twenty-seven leading entrepreneurs are captured on a new Web page from Harvard Business School. |
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The True Entrepreneur Most people work for themselves to make more money and have more control, but being a successful entrepreneur involves a lot more. |
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VCs Want in on Your Hot New Company The latest VC trend: Early stage investing is on the rise. |
AskMen.com
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How To Write A Business Plan: Part 1 A business plan will act as a guide to a potential investor and indicate whether your venture is worth the capital risk. |
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Foursquare's Tristan Walker Checks Out For Andreessen Horowitz As one of three entrepreneurs in residence at the firm, Walker will work to vet deals with mobile, social, and local businesses. |
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Blogger of the Year Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Netscape, is the curator of the best entrepreneur's blog. |
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Amy Wilson Sheldon |
Slow Down, You Move Too Fast CEO of DreamLabs says that taking time to think was better than moving at "Internet speed". |
