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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. Venture capital is a male-dominated business and it’s rare to get the perspectives of female VC. Interested in venture capital investment? The Barefoot VC.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. The most visible evidence of the trend towards automation is an increasing number of engineers working at venture capital and private equity funds.

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4 Key Components Of Every New Business Financial Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

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[INTERVIEW] Michael Majeed, Finance Executive, SR&ED Tax Consultant

YoungUpstarts

Many companies seek angel investors, venture capital and even family and friends’ money when they’re planning to start a company. Forecasting business revenue and expenses during the startup stage with a degree of accuracy takes a lot of time, investors will not put money in your business if you’re unable to provide a forecast.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

When Netscape went public, it unleashed a frenzy from the public markets for anything related to the internet and signaled to venture investors that there were massive returns to be made investing in anything internet related. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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Forecasting in venture capital

The Equity Kicker

Good VCs need to be good forecasters. Deloitte have just published an interesting synopsis of Tetlock’s Superforecasting which gives us some insights into the types of people we need to recruit and the habits we need to cultivate to be good at the forecasting game. cautious in their forecasts. cautious in their forecasts.

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4 Simple Steps Will Get Startup Financial Projections

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

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