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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

Today’s book recommendation, for anyone interested in venture capital, is The Business of Venture Capital: The Art of Raising a Fund, Structuring Investments, Portfolio Management, and Exits by Mahendra Ramsinghani. A decade ago, I got a cold email from Mahendra.

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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital

VC Adventure

The number of new venture firms raising their first fund has increased markedly – especially since 2011 (new funds are a good barometer of the growth of the industry, and a leading indicator of job growth in venture capital). Participate.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs. Inside the Minds of Top Venture Capitalists: Blogs You Need to Read to Understand How VCs Think. Venture capital is a male-dominated business and it’s rare to get the perspectives of female VC.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s. However, there were some things in it that didn’t ring true for me.

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How Venture Capital Decision Making Has Changed During the Pandemic

View from Seed

Noting our own experience, we questioned whether the fast proliferation of virtual interaction introduced by the COVID-19 crisis had changed investor decision-making more broadly across the venture capital industry. Following initial decision paralysis, many venture capitalists have returned to pace.

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Venture Capital Demystified: A Fundraising Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Lawyers

YoungUpstarts

Today most materials are shared over email, so don’t worry about printing out copies. You’ll need a few paragraphs that you can email — often called the elevator pitch — meaning you should be able to give it during a brief elevator ride up to your investor’s office. The presentation.