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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