Pitch Deck Database
Pitch Deck Database frees you from the time-consuming process of searching for investor decks by aggregating data on over 700+ pitch deck examples from top tech companies of the world in one place, complete with their funding info and industries.
Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Open Source Funding Documents
Cooley, one of the top startup law firms, has open sourced the legal documents required to do a Series Seed or Convertible Note financing.
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Cooley Godward” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools, Legal, Venture Capital
All the Public Startup Pitch Decks in One Place
Andy Sparks and Joshua Levy have assembled a list of reference pitch decks for founders to view when building their own. Some notable inclusions: YouTube, LinkedIn, Mint, BuzzFeed, AirBnB, Tinder, Foursquare, Moz, and Buffer.
Content: Online Resource | Authors: Andy Sparks, Joshua Levy | Source: “Medium” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
VCDB
Sometimes venture capital can be a little intimidating. It’s hard to know where to start and whom to approach. And it can be hard to cut through the noise in order to reach investors. This application aims to help by aggregating biographical, and other basic information on many of the venture investors located in the US. A simple search can take you one step closer … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Matt Winn | Subjects: Industry Specific, Venture Capital
Angelsoft
Angelsoft was founded in 2004 with a simple idea: to bring the power of collaboration technologies to the early-stage investment industry. Today, with 410 angel groups and VCs, 11,251 investors, and 2,100 new company applications a month, Angelsoft has become a vital ecosystem where real entrepreneurs and real investors meet and collaborate in the effort to build the best new companies of the 21st Century. … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Venture Capital
Get Venture by Mark Peter Davis
Mark Davis, a member of DFJ Gotham, has written a series of posts on his blog designed to “create the entrepreneur’s manual for raising venture capital.”
Content: Online Resource | Author: Mark Peter Davis | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Private Company Financings Update
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
VentureWiki
VentureWiki is intended to be a resource for entrepreneurs to capitalize on the collective experience, opinions, and judgement of the venture capital community.
Editor’s Note: the site says it’s a work in progress and it appears that way – some good information already exists, but it is sparse; not sure if it will get popular or whither away but I list it with hope of … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Woodside Fund” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Feld Thoughts: Posts on Letters of Intent
Following up on the Term Sheet series, the Feld Thoughts blog offer a series on the Letter of Intent. As stated in the first post, “Deals have to start somewhere, and often the first real ‘document’ that gets negotiated after the foreplay turns serious is the infamous letter of intent…This sometimes delightful and usually non-binding document (except for things like a no shop agreement) is … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Authors: Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson | Source: “Feld Thoughts” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal, Venture Capital
Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC®)
The VCIC® is the nation’s premiere strategy competition for venture-minded and entrepreneurial MBA students. This one-of-a-kind competition gives students from top business schools a real-world venture capitalist experience – student teams interact with real entrepreneurs from real companies with real business plans. Unlike other competitions where teams lock themselves away to mull over theoretical or historical scenarios, the VCIC® experience exposes students to a variety … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: “UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School” | Subjects: MBA Related, Venture Capital
Feld Thoughts: Posts on Term Sheets
A series of blog posts by Brad Feld (a VC) explaining various aspects of term sheets to entrepreneurs.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Brad Feld | Source: “Feld Thoughts” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
VC Experts
VC Experts serves the needs of the private equity and venture capital communities with its anchor product, The Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital by combining substantive commentary on the private equity and venture capital industries with online learning courses. The VCExperts.com site includes current industry news, weekly commentary, and the online University and 4,000 page Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital.
The Encyclopedia … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Rare Ideas LLC” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Art of the Start
Former Apple marketing maven Guy Kawasaki has established quite a second career as start-up counselor and funder via his Garage Technology Ventures VC firm. We are big fans of his Forbes column, which offers straight-shooting advice from someone who has been there. His topics are as broad as the importance of taking chances to the right time to name a company, from the worth of … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: “Forbes” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF)
The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds is an organization of private, public and nonprofit organizations committed to building their local economies by investing and facilitating investment in local entrepreneurs.
Content: Online Resource | Source: “The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Search Funds
Learn about the concept of the search fund at this site. Conceived in 1984, the search fund is an investment vehicle in which investors financially support an entrepreneur’s efforts to locate and acquire a privately held company.
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Stanford University” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Tech’s Top Venture Investors (2001)
The engine of innovation still hums, despite a wretched year that saw several hundred startups go bust and upwards of 700,000 tech jobs disappear. Proof of that comes straight from the source: the members of our second annual Midas List, the elite 100 venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers and recruiters who nurture and steer the tech economy.
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Forbes” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
vFinance.com
“Since 1995, vfinance.com has been recognized as the #1 global portal for companies in need of capital and private investors seeking quality deal flow. Take a few minutes to explore our site: you’ll discover a wide selection of FREE investment banking and venture capital resources. As well as premium services designed for serious investors.”
Editor’s Note: I really like their VCSearch, in particular the ability to … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: “vFinance.com” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
NVST Private Equity InfoBase
NVST, publishers of well-known journals in the private equity field including Buyouts, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Venture Capital Journal offer valuable free information on its Web site. (Access to its print publications and research studies require a paid subscription.) The Private Equity Infobase is a library of articles on topics of interest to entrepreneurs, especially in the area of raising capital. The articles themselves come … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: “NVST” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Internet VC Watch
This “One Stop Internet Venture Capital Information Network” gives daily breakdowns of VC activity, company profiles, people news, and more. It is also home to one of my favorite daily email newsletters, VC Buzz. But probably the best part of this site is their search engine which lets you search for VC firms or funded firms by name, city, state, region, country, or … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: “INT Media Group Inc.” | Subject: Venture Capital
Venture One
This “Information Partner to the Venture Capital Industry” is famous for its regular statistics on the state of the VC market. On the site, you will also find their publications, a directory of VCs, resources for entrepreneurs, and some fee-based services, notably their customized valuation reports and their.
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Venture One” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital