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Know Your Communication Strategy When Raising Money
Today’s interesting post is from Matt Eventoff and talks about how startups need a communications strategy while raising money – not all that dissimilar from a disgraced po...
How to Run a Great Board Meeting
Today, the great post is by my partner Brad. He has a great post on how to run a great board meeting. Should be required re...
Ruminations On Whether Seattle VC’s Suck
Today’s post of the day is from Andy Sack titled Do Seattle VCs suck? In it, Andy states:“Moreover, I wanted to explore the ques...
Finding Companies to Invest In
Today’s great VC post is from my partner (and co-author of this blog) Jason Mendelson. Jason post Where Do Venture Capitalists...
How To Cold Call A VC
Mark Suster of GRP Partners in LA continues to crank out great posts, including today’s titled Getti...
Betting on A Big Wave
Mark Suster of GRP Partners is blogging like a fiend and has the best VC post of the day titled
When Failure Is An Option
Today’s great post is from David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners and is titled Israeli Venture Keynote: When Fail...
Start-up Cost Projections For First Time Entrepreneurs
Q: At a pub in Los Gatos, CA a casual conversation with some young, first time entrepreneurs lead to an interesting comment: "...the business plan outlines our estimated (operational) expenses but how do I know an investor is not go...
Communications Advice for Pitching Venture Capitalists
Today's post is from Matt Eventoff - a communications consultant who has good tips for entrepreneurs who are pitching VCs.I reinforce that having a clear message is really important....
2009 New York Venture Summit
The 2009 New York Venture Summit is happening on June 17th at Digital Sandbox in New York City. The summit will featur...
How To Get A Job In Venture Capital
I (Jason) get asked often how I got into venture capital and how interested folks may get involved as well.I always tell them that I "fell" into the job, as most folks that I know who are VCs and that everyone has a different and uniqu...
Do VC's Guess The Exit At The Beginning?
Question: You often hear to leave out the possible exit scenario when you pitch. Brad states that its because its usually wrong. I suspect most VC's discuss likely exits with their partners before making a...
Does The Concept of Addressable Market Matter?
Q: Can you please address the issue of estimating Addressable Market when the product or service is trying to solve an emerging problem and opportunity that is about to hit in the near future. For example, FeedBurner raised money long before ...
