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Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. In June 2011 Mahendra sent me and Seth a final draft of the book.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. . - Modest profitability. - Low profitability.

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