Venture capital Archives - Page 2 of 7

Bill Schreiber: Law 101 For Startups

Bill Schreiber is a partner in Fenwick & West’s corporate group. His emphasis is on Start-up Counseling, Venture Capital Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures. Fenwick incorporated Apple, when it was…

View Post

2 min

15 Steps To Heaven, Finding A Business Angel

An angel investor or angel (also known as a business angel or informal investor) is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible…

View Post

3 min

Founder Lessons: Eileen Gittins-Dos And Don’ts When Pitching To VCs

Eileen Gittins is the founder and CEO at Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books. Be prepared for the…

View Post

1 min

30 of The Most Respected Venture Capitalists (Infographic)

The Top 30 with links to their Twitter Accounts Brad Feld Foundry Group James D. Robinson III RRE Ventures Peter Sinclair Leapfrog Ventures Mark Suster GRP Partners Howard Morgan First…

View Post

1 min

20 Questions You Should Expect In Your Next Investor Pitch

What is your competitive advantage? What is your unfair advantage; the advantage no one else has or will have? What was or will be your most important, early milestone? How…

View Post

1 min

Apply Now: GrowLab Is Offering $25,000 In Seed Funding

GrowLab is a joint venture between entrepreneurs and angel investors in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as in Silicon Valley — that has signed up some high-profile financial backers including…

View Post

1 min

Must Read Articles For Early-stage Entrepreneurs

Young entrepreneurs seek advice in many forms from mentors, other startup founders, investors, business advisors etc.Good concise reading can be very influential for an early stage startup founder. These articles…

View Post

1 min

Apply Now: Greenstart-$25,000 In Seed Capital For Cleantech Ideas

Greenstart is a startup accelerator for cleantech. We help the most promising cleantech startups achieve greater success, faster. The companies we select receive seed funding, three months of mentoring, valuable…

View Post

1 min

Rent the Runway Scores $15 Million From Kleiner Perkins

Rent the Runway, an online destination for dress, accessory and bridesmaid dress rentals, has raised $15 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). At only eighteen…

View Post

2 min

21 Important Tips For The First-time Startup CEO

Hire the absolute best people you possibly can Find a couple trusted, experienced advisors/mentors. Start simply, prioritize, and maintain focus When fundraising, ask people for advice, not money Create several…

View Post

1 min

200 of The Best Resources To Help You Raise Venture Capital

Venture Capital firms screen through hundreds–if not thousands–of investment “opportunities” each month. To differentiate yourself from your competitors, it’s important to avoid mistakes and and make the best presentation of…

View Post

1 min

9flats.com (4 Months Old Startup) Raises $10 Million In Funding

9flats.com, the European leader in peer to peer apartment rentals, has announced today that it has completed a major investment round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures.…

View Post

3 min

Top 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship

Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor. In these tough economic times, more and more people are turning to entrepreneurship as an…

View Post

2 min

Common Mistakes First-time Entrepreneurs Make

We underestimated the difficulty of managing a team and undervalued the skills of general management, process, and strategy. Siqi Chen We used our limited resources as a startup to attack…

View Post

2 min

Startup Founder Lessons: Scott Dunlap On Raising Series A Mistakes

Scott Dunlap is an Entrepreneur, currently obsessing on next gen location-based mobile apps. Early exec at E.piphany (9th highest IPO in 1999), Loudcloud/Opsware (IPO 2001, sold to HP in 2007),…

View Post

2 min

How Much Focus Should Startup Founders Place On Getting Acquired?

Early in my investment career, I had lunch with a Sequoia partner who explained to me some of the fundamentals of their investment strategy. One of them is that “good…

Pages