Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. Glad you had a chance to see us at DEMO. Post a Comment.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing. Blog Archive. My Blog List. Post a Comment.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

The spring semester of my Entrepreneurial Finance class starts tomorrow. We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. Labels: entrepreneur , entrepreneurial finance course , venture capital.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing. Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. Blog Archive. My Blog List. No comments: Post a Comment.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. cant wait to go back, which is clearly goal #1 in the list of critical success factors if anyone is still following the business model tangent. Labels: Bandon Dunes , business models , golf.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. His gut told him the opportunity might not be there in a year and he dropped out of business school to launch the venture. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I am not sure how this relates to venture finance or entrepreneurship, but Im sure Ill find some connection along the way. I didnt find the answer to any of these questions, but did run across a blog, Brickbreaker Conquest , that shed some light on the question. That was a large part of why I started to blog. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. Blog Archive. My Blog List. November 22, 2009 2:03 AM.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If you havent seen it yet (and to date over one million folks have), it is worth the 3 minute stop before finishing this blog entry. According to todays San Jose Mercury , Davaran has been trying to break into the music business for the past three years and after the release of this YouTube hit, has started getting calls about new projects.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense?

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Nope, the above quote isnt from Richard Dawson on Family Feud, but similar to a headline that caught my attention on the front page of the business section of the San Jose Mercury News this morning. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. Newer Post.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. Labels: bootstrapping , business plans , entrepreneurship. Professor Bennet, I have been following your blog, and would really appreciate an opportunity to speak with you about a startup that we have boostrapped to beta.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My colleague, Anu Basu , Director of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at San Jose State , recently completed a paper on this topic, "Does Experience Matter? Labels: entrepreneur , seed investing , venture capital , venture financing. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. We recently led a financing for AppBistro , that had a great group of investors committed, including Dave McClure and Alfred Lin.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In this case, LinkedIn was the only logical one that came to mind and didn’t see a viable business model short of that result. Mind you, this is clearly speculation on my part (what are blog posts for?) I ran across a couple of blog posts by another angel investor in Card Munch, Ty Danco. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Ok, so I think Im the last guy in Silicon Valley to start a blog. I thought Id just go with a simple blog name like Steve Bennet, but wasnt available on Blogger so I had to come up with something else. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

MAY 6, 2008

My colleague, Joel West, wrote a blog post yesterday responding to an article in the Financial Times on the looming shortage of b-school faculty. In the post, he raises the age old question of whether business students are better served by traditional academics or those with current, practical business experience. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

How passionate are the entrepreneurs about their business? Does the business model pass the smell test? Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. My Blog List. Newer Post.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

The protagonist, Ross Williamson, is struggling to finance his company and hang on to his team during the process. Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. My Blog List. Post a Comment.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. Of course, the most important funding statistic to an entrepreneur relates to one specific company, and whether there is sufficient capital available to build and scale his business. Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

This blog post compares the existing crowdfunding bills and provides an ideal solution which carefully balances the viability of crowdfunding as a source of capital against the risk of fraud: [link]. in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

If I could have coffee with you sometime and talk either in San Jose or Palo Alto that would be great. I'd be happy to send you our business plan, exec summary, and ppt. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. October 19, 2010 1:28 PM. Newer Post.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. Once there is critical mass, lots of business can, indeed, happen. However, how do you get to critical mass, and how do you finance the period during which this business runs on red ink?

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." Ive written about the practice of charging entrepreneurs in earlier blog posts and it is not something we would ever do at SHA.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. The founders.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

That is what I am doing with the ELAB program at San Jose State University. I initially found your blog a week or so ago, and I want to subscribe to your RSS feed. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. I dont know, but Ill bet against her.

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