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Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. In June 2011 Mahendra sent me and Seth a final draft of the book.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

However, for many successful entrepreneurs, weighing all of the personal and financial issues that go into this decision can be gut-wrenching. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping.

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Knowledge Is Power: Convertible Note Financing Terms, Part II

Gust

Closing : A first closing will be held on or before September 30, 2011, or such other date that the Company and the bridge investor(s) participating in such closing mutually decide upon (the “ Initial Closing ”). This paragraph is the heart of the whole deal. Amount of Financing : Up to $600,000 may be issued.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

Who the entrepreneur takes money from (see this post ) is always more important than the terms. "  The problem has been that too-high valuations and too generous terms have spawned painful down rounds that squash the entrepreneur and his early investors.    If the entrepreneur can bootstrap.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

by Tristan on January 20, 2011. Kevin Carroll says: January 20, 2011 at 9:55 am. Tristan says: January 24, 2011 at 10:20 pm. Tweets that mention Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity | GrasshopperHerder.com -- Topsy.com says: January 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm. [.] Cody Boyte says: January 24, 2011 at 7:56 pm.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As all good sales VPs will tell you, the compensation plans of the sales team will drive behavior, so it is critically important that you structure the sales and account management plans to align with the key metrics of your business: CMRR, Churn, and Cash flow. ” Gary Messiana, Bessemer Entrepreneur-In-Residence and former CEO, Netli.