See Also: Entrepreneurship
This page could use more links and organization, later it will be broken out into different pages.
VC Blogroll
VC Firms
VC Links
Venture Blogging Posts
- Point Solutions vs End to End Solutions
- Bootstrapping Top 10 List
- How to Shop for Venture Money
- How to partner with large companies
- Valuation
- Valuation Methods
- Beauty Contests and Venture Valuations
- Questioning New Valuation Models
- The Exploding Termsheet
- Participating Preferred
- What Does Pro-rata Mean?
- Operator or Investor VC?
- When Technology Lead Doesn't Matter
- Accelerating Acceleration
- When VC Isn't Right
- Financial Fitness for Entrepreneurs
- Putting the 'Power' In Powerpoint
- Torturous Powerpoint
- Investor Rationale for Newsgator
- VC Clichés
- We don't like surprises
- Being Diligent
- Brad Feld's excellent series on term sheets
- Strategic Investment vs Venrture Investment and Structure
- Allen Morgan's 10
Commandments - Do your homework, and contact the right person
- Be on time
- Tease, don't overwhelm
- Know your audience
- Create the 'Aha' early
- Explain the idea by analogy to, or contrast with, older ideas
- Go with 13 or less slides
- Know what you don't know -- and admit it
- Be like Goldilocks, when it comes to competition
- Control the meeting -- but be smart about it
- The New VC Handbook