Deal Flow IPO Sales Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley. Our lives are intertwined.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2011
Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. They dropped their number one selling product and switched to a competitor’s product while managing not to lose a single sale. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Youllprobably get either preferred stock, which means stock with extrarights like getting your money back first in a sale, or convertibledebt, which means (on paper) youre lending the company money, andthe debt converts to stock at the next sufficiently big fundinground. [ The part I thought was hard, the mechanics of investing, reallyisnt.
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