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| Page 1 of 20 | Previous | Next | THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. OCTOBER 17, 2011 10 Misperceptions About Venture Capital Not every company raises venture capital—most don’t. In my own case, of the 7 deals I’ve sourced and/or led at First Round , the profiles of the founders look like this: Married, non-technical female, mid-30s, mom, white. Early 20’s technical + non technical single founders, white. Tweet. 1) You need it. | THINKING ABOUT THINKING JANUARY 19, 2011 Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – 2011 Edition This is the 4th edition of the Venture Capital Blog Directory ( 1st edition , 2nd edition , 3rd edition ). This directory includes 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs. Fred Wilson ( @fredwilson ), Union Square Ventures, A VC (81,483). Mike Speiser, SutterHill Ventures, Laserlike (490). | | | | | |
| | | | A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY APRIL 14, 2011 How To Allocate Founder and Employee Equity Before factoring in dilution from investors, the founders should end up with about 50% of the company, total. Nobody who is not working full time counts as a founder. The thing I love the most about Joel's post is he throws darts into a lot of conventional wisdom about founder equity allocation. Great post by Joel. | GABRIEL WEINBERG OCTOBER 24, 2011 What I learned from raising venture capital recently raised venture capital for the first time. DuckDuckGo raised a series A round from Union Square Ventures and a handful of awesome angel investors. Your VC is essentially buying in as a co-founder. Would you chose a co-founder that sucks? You can tl;dr it by reading the section titles. I'm new at this. | | | | | | | |
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STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011  New Rules for the New Internet Bubble
After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. Carpe Diem. MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010  Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?
Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%. Normal. MORE >> -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011  Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million. MORE >> -
 How Much Money To Raise
It's too dilutive to you and your co- founders and angels. You may need to have more cash on your balance sheet for working capital reasons and you may not be increasing value at quite the same rate as you were when you were smaller. Venture Capital and TechnologyImage via Wikipedia. That's not a good thing. MORE >> - Six Slides
The founder and CEO of another of our portfolio companies is wrapping up a large round and he showed me his pitch deck. How could Brad and I possibly take all that we had done and learned in almost 20 years in the venture business and put it into six slides? Tags: Venture Capital and Technology Guess what? MORE >>
- First Time vs Serial Entrepreneurs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2011
- Difficult Is Good A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011
- Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011
- Invest In The Mess A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2010
- The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010
- A framework to think about pricing seed, angel, and venture capital rounds THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
- Startup America – Dead On Arrival STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011
- The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
- A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011
- It Must Be A Marketing Problem STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
- Going to Raise VC? Here’s a Primer on Process, People, Deck BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011
- Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
- Competing To Win Deals A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010
- The Expanding Birthrate Of Web Startups A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2010
- How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
- Building A Company vs Building A Business A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011
- Entrepreneurs Have Control When Things Work, VCs Have Control When They Don't A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012
- How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011
- Rethinking Mobile First A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2010
- Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
- Startup Founder Agreements HIGH CONTRAST | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
- The Postmortem A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2010
- Standardized Venture Funding Docs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010
- Six Slides, Three Slides, or No Slides A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
- Founder Agreements – Vesting, Vesting and more Vesting HIGH CONTRAST | SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2010
- It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are CHRIS DIXON | MONDAY, JULY 5, 2010
- Staying Independent A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012
- The Singularity hits Venture Capital (Wilson/Kauffman Redux) FRED DESTIN | SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
- Questions you and your co-founder need to have answered before you start (or ASAP) THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012
- CEO Transitions A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2011
- Founder Liquidity THINKING ABOUT THINKING | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009
- Global VC Blog Directory – Ranked By # of Google Reader Subscribers (Sept 2009) THINKING ABOUT THINKING | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
- Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011
- The segmentation of the venture industry CHRIS DIXON | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
- Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
- #startupvisa A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011
- Are You A Founder, CEO, or Entrepreneur? THINKING ABOUT THINKING | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009
- Where In The World Is Eduardo Saverin? THINKING ABOUT THINKING | MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009
- What's in a (venture capital) website ? FRED DESTIN | MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 2011
- The Bad Board Member STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
- An Evolved View Of The Participating Preferred A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010
- Notes on raising seed financing CHRIS DIXON | THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011
- 50/50 Cofounders A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011
- Friendship Effects in Venture Capital GROWTHOLOGY | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012
- The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010
- Startups With Real Revenue Can Get Venture Capital STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2011
- Incubators vs. Accelerators STARTUPCFO | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
- Who is Getting Venture Capital Money This Year? STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010
- How Many Investors are Too Many? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011
- Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010
- Is Convertible Debt Preferable to Equity? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2010
- Venture capital is only right for a small percentage of businesses THE EQUITY KICKER | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
- Sound A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011
- What's Wrong With Sensationalist Media A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012
- Myth Busters: Debunking Seven Conventional Wisdom Maxims of Venture Capital GENUINE VC | MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013
- When, Where, and How to Raise Venture Capital STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2011
- Who not to take money from… STARTUPCFO | MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013
- The Founder Factor A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010
- A Better Way To Ask For Investor Intros SEED STAGE CAPITAL | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012
- Anything is Possible (in a Startup) THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010
- Backing Founders vs. CEOs STARTUPCFO | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
- Venture Capital Investors Look Beyond Your Startup STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
- Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
- The Problem with Startup Advice THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
- What's the Secret Success of MINT.com? The Real Numbers Behind Aaron Patzer's Growth Strategy CHRISTINE.NET | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
- Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs DAVID TETEN | WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012
- How To Get Your Emails Read A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011
- Beer Kegs and the Future of Venture Capital: What It Means for Entrepreneurs GENUINE VC | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
- Twitter.com vs The Twitter Ecosystem A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2010
- Bored Of Directors (continued) A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011
- You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011
- Lean A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz MARC ANDREESSEN | SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009
- Founder Labs (continued) A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
- Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
- How to Be a VC: Being Open THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2012
- Pair Up A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011
- Bootstrapping A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012
- The Internet Might Kill Us All STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
- Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013? STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013
- Make Your Own Decisions FELD THOUGHTS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012
- Video Of The Week: Founder Liquidity A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2012
- Dos and Don’ts When Raising Venture Capital For the First Time VC CAFE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
- How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012
- If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011
- Moneyball For Startups A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
- Tradeoffs in Innovative Careers THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011
- Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3 BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
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John Morris