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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. portfolios.

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A Time for Change in Venture Capital

K9 Ventures

Crisis Could Have Lingering Effect on Startups. PrivateEquityOnline: Bankrupt WaMu Parent Defaults on Capital Call. Mergers and acquisitions have also been down, especially the large deals. Deferred/Unmet Capital Calls : Portfolios have taken a beating in this market. NY Times Bits: I.P.O.

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Death By VC

Venture Chronicles

What happens is that the large fund will exercise their majority position in the class to force an orderly shutdown of the company, return of capital to investors, and sale of the intellectual property, if any. In normal times the term sheet and due diligence process all but guaranteed the investment as far as the startup was concerned.