Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Adult Education Books capital markets Corporate Governance Entrepreneur Eye Opening Experiences Leadership Profiles Uncategorized VC Board Best Practices Venture Board Governance White Papers Venture Capital Web/Tech Working Group on Director Accountability'

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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David Teten

AUGUST 10, 2017

We think one of the industries with the greatest room for improved use of technology is venture capital itself. Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, and PEVCTech.com are now running what we believe is the first-ever large-scale survey of VC firms’ technology stacks. Filling out this survey should take you no more than 7 minutes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from Angel and venture capital investors. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 1, 2010

respondents clearly favored proven venture-backed CEOs from unrelated sectors (58%) over sector entrepreneurs with no CEO experience (31%) or industry leaders from large companies who lack experience in an entrepreneurial environment (11%). ” * “VCs increasingly prefer to find executives who already have a small-company education.”

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. First, the venture capital business is contracting severely: From the April 18th, 2009 NVCA/PWC Moneytree report: “Venture capitalists invested just $3.0 ” FULL STOP.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

You can download the full white paper at www.bvp.com/cloud or click here. Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. Cloudonomics requires that you plan your fuel stops very carefully (more.) Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 7:42 PM. Excellent update to your 10 Laws. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve written about board governance challenges for startups since 1999, publishing one book, a series of three white papers, and many articles and blog posts on this topic. To learn more, go to my Facebook fan page Entrepreneur Essentials.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Venture Capital Venture Capital Term Sheets Startups Term Sheets What are examples of good startup term sheets? The BVCA (British Venture Capital Association) docs are here, with a link to a term sheet [link] ets/fea. org/2009/02. org/index.php?op.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Kennet has a white paper on that summarizes why bootstrapped businesses are the best. In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.) Tell Me How to Find You But having benchmarks in hand that showed us as the winner did us no good unless all our potential customers could see them.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2010

billion in the US to create new jobs – what is the impact on the venture capital industry? Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and Intel executive vice president said: “With $3.5 Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and Intel executive vice president said: “With $3.5

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

This challenge has many dimensions - from receivables and cash flow, to commercial banks (in spite of the strong economy) still mostly on the sidelines, to the availability of private equity and other forms of risk capital to fund growth initiatives. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Institutional venture capital is not increasing; on the contrary, the industry continues to consolidate by firm and is declining in total. It is a tribute to America’s innovation culture that, while most startups fail, we are currently experiencing such a boom in seed financing in the United States.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 11, 2009

There is plenty of ink flowing with speculation on the future of the venture capital industry. Phil Wickham , CEO of the Kauffman Fellows Program , has a constructive perspective on this topic, which he expressed in his CEO recap in the Kauffman Fellows Program eBulletin that was published on June 2.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Below is a definition of the rule, taken from the white paper, “A Simple Guide to the Basic Responsibilities of VC-Backed Company Directors” , written by the Working Group on Director Accountability and Board Effectiveness : Business Judgment Rule.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the third in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Share and Enjoy:

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the ninth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. economy, our legislators, could make some structural changes to our small company capital markets regulations to fuel the greatest job creation engine in America—the entrepreneur driving an emerging growth company.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Secrets of Startup Investing We just updated our white paper " Secrets of Startup Investing: Where to Win Now. "

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Silicon Valley Ratchet Private Equity Startup 69

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. 1) They sure killed a ton of trees. They hire the best and the brightest. lesson of using SBIC funds.),

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Pascal's View

MARCH 16, 2010

This is the seventh in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question; How should institutional investors contact VC funds? Directly or via an investment consultant?

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Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

This is the fifth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Please differentiate between the governance of a VC fund versus the governance of companies in a VC fund’s portfolio?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose. Methodology.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

First, through featuring these insights across the company's various marketing platforms - in its marketing and sales collateral, its white papers and case studies, in its email newsletter, and potentially in the its tag line and logo.

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. We’ve received numerous constructive comments, both privately and on social media, from attorneys, VCs, and CEOs who are well aware of the problem (including several who are experiencing it in real time).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Several European countries started announcing ‘Exit Plans’ from the current lockdowns. But as the world is starting to flatten the curves, the economic impact is just beginning.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the eighth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Answer: The options here are limited, and they are (1) the LP can try to sell their interest, including the obligation to fund future capital calls, to a fund that acquires secondary interests.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 11, 2010

This is the fourth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Venture capital is totally a hits- driven business, but there are very few hitters, either VCs or entrepreneurs– who are able to hit multiple home runs.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For example, they might have attended a webinar, downloaded a white paper, taken advantage of a free trial, and responded to an email promotion. VC Venture capital Viral growth Plugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes Copyright © David Skok 2009, 2010. All rights reserved.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">   mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> The Q1 2009 venture capital investment statistics. new capital formation from venture-backed companies because capital normally dedicated to long-term risk has been severely drained from our equity markets—both public and private.   While.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. The paper is a follow up to Grant Thornton’s original study, Why are IPOs in the ICU? which was published in November 2008.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 19, 2010

This is the last in our series of 10 frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: I’ve read that some GPs are suing LPs for not making capital calls.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 15, 2010

This is the sixth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Answer: Certainly as the sources of capital have become more selective and scarce, the GPs have had to become more aware of LP concerns over terms.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 4, 2009

venture capital, and new commitments by private investors to funding of. this collectively reduced pool of risk capital is not yet evident in our. in the small business ventures that drive new job creation in America. crucial that more venture capital be invested in efforts to pursue. It is also.

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