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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.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Path, a two-year-old San Francisco startup, took this risk and turned down a $100 million offer from Google shortly after their launch in November of 2010. Despite the success, there was one valuable lesson to be learned here. Unprofitable.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

Ask any of us who've experienced significant down rounds based on some or all of these things, and one begins to understand the cautionary nature of deal structures.  When there is the prospect of future rounds, sometimes evidenced by misses in the past, deal structures become more caution-driven. October 2010.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Investment in small businesses require knowledge of transactions and the related aspects such as business valuation, due diligence, deal structuring / financing, contracts, etc. Although I knew I would be working in (not on) the business to some extent, the work turned out to be more than I anticipated, at least initially.