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

JULY 31, 2008

Its been a while since my last blog post.It I actually enjoy the process of pulling together a selection of materials to create a complete course on Entrepreneurial Finance. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. ProfessorVC. Thursday, July 31, 2008.

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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. However, I was glad to see they were able to raise financing and launch the service. Jeff shared some entrepreneurial lessons with the class and I may include in a subsequent blog post. Blog Archive.

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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

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

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. No comments: Post a Comment.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Manija Ansari is an undergraduate business student (currently in my Entrepreneurial Finance course), working on a social entreprenurial venture. 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.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders). Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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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. He raised less financing than originally planned but was able to launch the site and was running a business by the time his classmates graduated 9 months later.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Manage seasonal demand through pricing - Weather on the Oregon coast can range from gorgeous to downright nasty and can change from one of the other in a matter of minutes. 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.

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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

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. 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.

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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

MAY 30, 2009

We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. 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. Dave, Thanks for following the blog. Blog Archive.

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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. Post a Comment.

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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

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. ProfessorVC.

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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. Byron Deeter has a good blog post on SAAS metrics. Blog Archive. My Blog List. Steve Bennet. at 3:15 PM.

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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. No comments: Post a Comment.

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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

JULY 22, 2009

Well, our VP Operations at Fliqz, Daniel Marcus , dabbles in creating writing and music when not managing our data center. The protagonist, Ross Williamson, is struggling to finance his company and hang on to his team during the process. Blog Archive. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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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. 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.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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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. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 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. Labels: angel groups , angel investing , CFO , early stage investing.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

and an investor in Right Side Capital Management (RSCM). 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]. Blog Archive. February 11, 2012 11:00 PM. Steve Bennet. 7.5 - 10.5%

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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. 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. October 19, 2010 1:28 PM.

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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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MAY 4, 2021

But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally. ER : Oh, if it's worth doing, it's worth blogging about. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And so I think we saved. We got so many positive inbounds from that.

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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.

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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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