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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. portfolios. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me).

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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How VCs Make Money….Hopefully

ithacaVC

And it literally has to pay in $$ when VC1 makes a capital call. Now, there are interesting ways for the GP to fulfill its portion of a capital call using “fee waiver”, but I am not going to address that here. Just like paying the portfolio company management team for doing its job.

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The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post.

Altgate

Their portfolio firms will be able to cut back on headcount and other spending and additional capital from investors will allow the companies to survive for the 2-5 years it will take the market to begin to recover. These VCs will see an almost total wipeout of their portfolios. But some will be saved. “Series B&# funds.

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A Time for Change in Venture Capital

K9 Ventures

The bottomline is that this is the worst time in history for the venture capital industry. The stories of doom and gloom in the venture business are everywhere. Here are just a couple that I’ve come across recently: TechCrunch: The End of Venture Capital As We Know It? This ties the hands of venture firms.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Death By VC

Venture Chronicles

Throughout my years in the venture capital business I was witness to some questionable behaviors and tactics, which in reality is par for the course in any business, but nothing could have prepared me for what I have seen in the last 2 years.