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| Perfecting your pitch
As a venture capitalist, I’m constantly on the receiving end of pitches from entrepreneurs looking for capital. Over time, I’ve found that these pitches fall into three categories: (1) The Introduction, (2) The First Shot, and (3) The Full Pitch. The same mistakes regularly appear in each category—following are some of the common ones and what you can do about them. |
| Making Angel Capital work for your clients
While venture capital remains a well publicized source of equity financing for |
| What's Broken - Venture Capital or Venture Perceptions?
There is an oft-repeated mantra than venture capital is broken. The evidence cited is the dismal absolute median returns of the venture capital industry. It is true that the venture asset class has become more competitive in the economic sense, i.e., excess returns are more difficult to achieve. That is to be expected. Excess profits attract competitors and returns decline. But that doesn’t mean all competitors converge to the equilibrium return. It just means that the winners will either have the same strategy as every one else with better execution, or simply better strategies. |
| Why Cleantech Venture investments fail
I have been spending time sitting down with a variety of cleantech VCs on both coasts lately, and I find it to be always a very humbling experience. Hearing how all these smart investors approach this unique sector -- and in a variety of different ways, I might add -- always serves to remind me how much more I have to learn about venture investing in this sector.
And that's one of the things that's broken about venture capital in general...... |
| Developing or improving products or processing
See how government incentives can help offset your development costs. |
| Angel Investors’ Wings Are Being Clipped
Entrepreneurs had a harder time getting enough angel financing to get their start-up ideas off the ground last year, according to a new report from the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
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| Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not
William H. Davidow, a venture capitalist, says he would want to know why an entrepreneur’s last deal failed “and what the person learned from it.” |
| V.C. Investing Not Dead, Just Different |
| The Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs
A list of statements that an entrepreneur should not bother incorporating into his/her pitch because a VC is certain to see through them |
| The Top 10 Lies of Venture Capitalists
Guy Kawasaki enlightens entrepreneurs on how to read Venture Capitalists. |
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