Venture Capital Industry Resources
Links (23)
- AngelSociety

- Angelsoft

- Art of the Start

- Feld Thoughts: Posts on Letters of Intent

- Feld Thoughts: Posts on Term Sheets

- Get Venture by Mark Peter Davis

- Internet VC Watch

- National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF)

- NVST Private Equity InfoBase

- Private Company Financings Update

- PWC Money Tree Survey

- Search Funds

- Tech's Top Venture Investors (2001)

- The Money List

- The VC

- VC Experts

- VCDB

- Venture Capital 101

- Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC®)

- Venture Economics

- Venture One

- VentureWiki

- vFinance.com

Articles (83)
- Isolating Causality: Bad Market or Bad Company

- 10 Pragmatic Steps To Raising Venture Capital

- A Chorus of Angels

- A New Strategy for Venture Investors: Hedge

- A Simple Guide to the Basic Responsibilities of VC-Backed Company Directors

- Academics catch VC bug

- American Venture Capital Syndication from 1960 to 2004

- An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital Financing

- Anatomy of a Term Sheet

- Angels With Angles

- Bargaining Power - Effective Venture Capital Contracts Come in Many Forms

- Battery Ventures Cuts Heads, Fees

- Billion-Dollar VC Club Looks Set To Shrink

- Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the Impact on Innovation

- Community Development Venture Capital: Serving the Double Bottom Line

- Creating New Jobs and Value With Private Equity

- Ditch your business plan. Tell the moneymen why they should care.

- Do 58% of VCs Think Angel Involvement Is Unattractive - Nope!

- Do You Need to Switch Your Pitch

- Due Diligence Reveals All - To The VC

- East Meets West: A Look at China's Venture Capital Industry

- Entrepreneurs join the VC team

- Europe Ventures Forth

- Expectations and the First Chicago Method

- Fallen Idols

- Fear and greed in VC funding

- Founders Get A Cure For The IPO Blues

- Four Unusual Questions You Should Ask in Raising Venture Money

- Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

- He Knows How to Be Diligent About Due Diligence

- How a VC Does It

- How Equity Dilution Works

- How Private Equity Investors Value Entrepreneurial Ventures

- How to Get the Attention of a Venture Capitalist

- In International Private Equity Deals, Finding the Right Managers Is Key

- In VC deals, Price Doesn't Matter - But The "Promote" Does

- IPO and VC Questions and Answers

- Looking for a Company to Run? Search Funds Could Be the Answer

- Multiples vs IRR

- Nice work If You Can Get It

- No Exit

- Note on Venture Capital

- NVCA Model Venture Capital Financing Documents

- Offshore Drilling

- Positioning and pitch decks for startups

- Private Equity's New Path to Profits

- Profit Dynamics Venture Capital Survey

- Putting Founders First

- Secrets of the Private Equity Trade

- The Cash Flow, Return & Risk Characteristics of Private Equity

- The Downside to the Upside

- The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

- The Power of the Herd

- The Smart VC: Don't get jerked around

- The ten commandments

- The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists

- The Top VC of All Time?

- The Truth About Venture Capitalists

- The Venture Capital Aptitude Test (VCAT)

- There's a pretty good reason why VC research firms' numbers differ

- There's Still Too Much Venture Investing

- To Participate or Not (Participating Preferences)

- Valuation: The Elusive Bulls-eye

- VC in Asia: Exit strategy in a "no exit" land

- VC P.S.: Ten myths and realities of VC - Part I

- VC P.S.: The smart entrepreneur

- VC P.S.: Trashing corporate VC

- VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY

- VCs drop carry on staff

- Vendors As VCs: Money And Influence

- Venture Capital -- An Overview of the Basic Issues and Challenges for Entrepreneurs

- Venture Capital's Transparency Trouble

- Venture Fund Distributions - Cash versus Stock

- Venture Fund Economics

- Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns

- Venture funding is reinvented

- Venture Philanthropy Embraces Key Strategies of Venture Capitalists

- What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?

- What should I send investors? Part 2: Deck

- When Are 350 Million Shares No Different Than 35 Million?

- Where Angels Fear to Tread

- Why Some Private Equity Firms Do Better Than Others

- Why VC Will Get Uglier

Downloadable Files (7)
- Balancing Founders and VC's Interests.pdf
- Due Diligence Checklist.doc
- Getting Your Idea Funded
- Private Equity Industry Primer
- Term Sheet for Equity Investment and Strategic Alliance
- VC Term Sheet.doc
- VCprocess.ppt
Thought Leader Interviews (14)
- Ann Winblad

- Ann Winblad

- Bob Metcalfe

- Donna Novitsky

- John Sculley

- Joseph L. Rice III

- Ronald Conway

- Seth Neiman

- Steve Jurvetson

- Stewart Alsop

- Ted Dintersmith

- Various Venture Capitalists

- Vinod Khosla

- Vinod Khosla

Market Research (28)
- $53.6-Billion VC Overhang
- 2002 Venture Investment Drop
- Angel Investing by the Numbers
- Angel Investments in the U.S. (2006)
- Angel Investor Statistics
- Canada VC Market
- China VC Market
- Declining Seed Investments
- Fewer VCs & Fewer Startups (2003, 2004)
- Investments in Clean Tech
- Israel's VC Market
- Japanese VC: Small is Beautiful?
- Private Equity's Road Map to Profits
- Recap of Venture Cap in 2002
- Small Business and VC in Perspective
- Startup Shutdown
- Startup Valuations Level Off
- Startups Increase in Value
- The Internet Boom
- U.S. VC Investments Q12004
- U.S. venture capital investment dollars (2004)
- VC Annual Funding, 1999-2001
- VC Funding Is Up And Down
- VC Market Statistics
- Venture Philanthropy in the US
- Venture Spending May Be Poised For A Comeback
- Venture Valuations
- Venture-Backed Exits in 2001
Associations / Organizations (3)
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