Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008. Some result from years of work and/or education while others are a result of trying to identify a unique solution to a consumer or business problem. Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. . ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing. ► 2008. (14). Steve Bennet. at 11:15 AM.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008. This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. cant wait to go back, which is clearly goal #1 in the list of critical success factors if anyone is still following the business model tangent. ▼ 2008. (14).

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008. ▼ 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008. I am not sure how this relates to venture finance or entrepreneurship, but Im sure Ill find some connection along the way. December 17, 2008 11:35 PM. December 18, 2008 9:07 AM. December 27, 2008 11:28 AM. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. . ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. . ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Tuesday, February 12, 2008. However, I was glad to see they were able to raise financing and launch the service. February 14, 2008 7:46 PM. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM. Steve, I was pleasantly surprised to find your blog when researching startup financing. April 14, 2008 12:48 PM. ▼ 2008. (14).

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008. I actually enjoy the process of pulling together a selection of materials to create a complete course on Entrepreneurial Finance. I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. Labels: business models , Grateful Dead , textbook.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

That was written in September 2008. Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. And so it goes.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008. As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. His gut told him the opportunity might not be there in a year and he dropped out of business school to launch the venture.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Friday, June 6, 2008. It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders). .

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. ▼ 2008. (14). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. ► July. (1).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. We had the wrong business model. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Finances were just one part of the story.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The business environment is much more complex today, and the hopeful entrepreneur need to understand more of the environment in which they will operate. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense?

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

job existed for every $37,702 of venture capital invested from 1970-2008 Lets assume these statistics are true (of course that may be a leap, as my wise father-in-law used to say, "Figures Lie and Liars figure"). . ► 2008. (14). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ► September. (1). ► May.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The search for a world series ticket brought up some more thoughts about entrepreneurial finance. Ive written about this before and I certainly wasnt the only one, but what a great business. ► 2008. (14). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ► September. (1). ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008. How passionate are the entrepreneurs about their business? Does the business model pass the smell test? ▼ 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. We recently led a financing for AppBistro , that had a great group of investors committed, including Dave McClure and Alfred Lin.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. ▼ 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Professor VC

MAY 6, 2008

Tuesday, May 6, 2008. In the post, he raises the age old question of whether business students are better served by traditional academics or those with current, practical business experience. . ▼ 2008. (14). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. Academically challenged.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. Of course, the most important funding statistic to an entrepreneur relates to one specific company, and whether there is sufficient capital available to build and scale his business. ► 2008. (14). billion to $5.5

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. . ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Labels: entrepreneur , seed investing , venture capital , venture financing. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. . ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

always focus on the business model and assumptions, but there are too many unknowns to put much faith in the future cash flow projections. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In this case, LinkedIn was the only logical one that came to mind and didn’t see a viable business model short of that result. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

We have invested a combination of ~$20K in founder financing and ~$200k in vendor financing. I wanted to see if we could setup a brief call with you to discuss our business. Because this is a public comment, I would like to limit the business description to crowdsourcing for AdWords. . ► 2008. (14).

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