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When a company is behind plan, an investor must ask is it the market or is it the company? A frequent challenge for an investor is to isolate causality in a given investment. Isolating market (exogenous) or company (endogenous) causality is vital with respect to the appropriate remedial action. If it is the market, there is little chance that more money or new management will … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Will Price | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Cooley Godward regularly present findings on private company financings. These reports provide a summary of data, reflecting their experience in venture capital financing terms and trends. If you are an entrepreneur looking to raise money or just someone interested in venture capital, check it out. [hat tip to Ask the VC]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Cooley Godward | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

A decade-long study of Silicon Valley (California) technology startups finds that companies were three times more likely to fail if at some point they altered the founder’s blueprint for employee relations than if they maintained their original model.

Content: Article | Authors: Greta Hsu, James N. Baron, Michael T. Hannan, Özgecan Koçak | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior

Matt McCall blogs about why pitching to VCs in terms of IRR rather than multiples is a mistake.

Content: Article | Author: Matt McCall | Source: VC Confidential | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Forget what you might have heard about Private Equity (PE). Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that PE destroys companies and employment. In fact, the latest statistics reveal that PE accelerates the growth of jobs and generates value (to the tune of one million over the past four years in Europe and 600,000 in the United States). Is it time for traditional firms … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Industry Specific, Venture Capital

Okay, you have decided to raise venture money. You have had a few meetings with a VC, presented to some partners, and you are in the pre-termsheet pipeline with a venture firm that you’re interested in. Okay, but that is a much more perilous place than most entrepreneurs understand, so here are four questions you need to get answered right away.

Content: Article | Author: Paul Kedrosky | Source: Infectious Greed | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

This report is the result of nine months of collaborative effort by 22 leading VC professionals, including CEO’s, attorneys, independent directors, and VCs. It represents the first practical guide to the basic responsibilities of board service in venture capital backed companies. This guide should also be useful to non-directors who are senior managers in VC-backed companies and to anyone associated with a VC-backed company who … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Working Group on Director Accountabilitiy and Board Effectiveness | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Ken Hendricks buys companies more often than most people buy toothpaste. He claims his ability to size up the numbers is innate. More ordinary, five-sensed entrepreneurs may need a little help dissecting the financials. But they can still learn from Hendricks’s five rules for a successful acquisition.

Content: Article | Author: Ken Hendricks | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Got guts-and 15 other must-haves-to start up your own shop?

Content: Article | Author: Paul Scott | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Entrepreneurship

FormNet® is designed to save you the time and expense of creating business documents from scratch. You can download and customize various business forms according to your needs, and immediately put them to work in your business–all for free.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Entrepreneur.com | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

Evidence suggests that small firms benefit from business planning as new ventures are assessed and started. Yet relatively few make use of business planning, or go about such planning in an inconsistent way that invites errors and omissions. This paper presents a systemized web-based venture planning model that provides opportunities for entrepreneurs to collect the appropriate information and assess their ventures. This model is based … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Cole Ehmke, Michael Boehlje | Source: Purdue University | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

Why do so many successful entrepreneurs feel like fakes?

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior

Seth Godin’s advice on starting a business with no money.

Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Entrepreneurship

This work is an examination in words and pictures of the way particular individuals, some famous and some not, have created businesses/careers from nothing but their own drive and talent.

Content: Book | Authors: Charles Handy, Elizabeth Handy | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, People

Private equities are an important and growing part of the worldwide capital markets, and include early stage investments, often backed by venture capital. In the article “Venture-Backed Private Equity Valuation and Financial Statement Information,” Professors Antonio Dávila of IESE, and George Foster and Chris Armstrong of Stanford analyze how financial statement information impacts the valuation of firms by private equity investors in the U.S. market. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Antonio Dávila, Chris Armstrong, George Foster | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Venture Capital

Leasing new space is an event that can have major implications for any business. If a company leases space that ultimately turns out to be unsuitable for all its operations, or if the lease does not allow for expansion, the growth of the company can be unduly hindered. If too much space is leased, the company will end up wasting limited cash resources. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joseph G. Hadzima Jr. | Source: Boston Business Journal | Subjects: Operations, Small Business

His goal: To single-handedly save the world’s women from obesity. With Curves, he seems to be pulling it off. And he’s built a billion-dollar business along the way.

Content: Case Study | Author: Alison Stein Wellner | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship | Industry: Other | Company: Curves

Anyone who tends toward arrogance should be sentenced to a term of VC fund-raising during a tight market.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Even the unforeseeable can be prepared for if you have the right tools. Start-ups are often faced with the unknown, when traditional methods cannot help them. But there are two options for managers of young companies such situations. So how to choose which method is most appropriate? Authors Sommer, Loch and Dong look at a sample of 62 start-up companies in Shanghai to shed light … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Christoph Loch, Jing Dong, Svenja Sommer | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Strategy

A business guide for entrepreneurs. Contents include:
– Entrepreneurship
– A Sensible Approach to Writing a Good Business Plan
– Raising Venture Capital
– Accounting Policies and Procedures for Early Stage Companies
– Legal Issues for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
– Managing Explosive Growth in Technology Companies
– Choosing an Exit Strategy

Editor’s Note: some info is basic, some is quite thorough; the accounting info … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Sources: PwC, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, Washington Technology Partners Inc. | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Reference / Search