Venture Capital for Dummies Book
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View ArticleRVC Announces Partnership with Japan’s Future Venture Capital
Rockies Venture Club (RVC) is excited to announce an entrepreneur and investor education program partnership with one of Japan’s most prestigious early stage venture capital firm, Future Venture...
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Startups without an Exit Strategy are not committed to their company.
I heard it again this week. The lame startup who answered that they didn’t have an exit strategy because they just wanted to create value for their customer. I’ve heard this so many times by CEOs who...
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Why Venture Capital may not be a Silver Bullet for Startup Funding.
Venture capital is a great solution to many startups’ finance problems, but it’s often not the best solution and, even when it is the best solution, it often works best as a part of a suite of...
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How to Cheat Time on Your VC Pitch – Part 1: The Last Slide
Too many startups stress about how to get their whole story into a five minute pitch and they don’t think enough about how to cheat time to get more out of their pitch. You can cheat just a bit to get...
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When does the clock start at a VC Pitch Event?
Too many startups stress about how to get their whole story into a five minute pitch and they don’t think enough about how to cheat time a bit to get the most out of the five minutes (or two, seven,...
View Article“And we have NO competition”
Please, do not ever say these words to an investor. You are essentially telling them to run. It is heard over and over, but it is never true. Maybe no one is doing the exact same thing, but someone is...
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Marketing Dilemma: Time and Capital is Key
The marketing dilemma in todays start-up world can be defined by the need for capital to increase marketing, but also the need for marketing to gain capital. Today’s Reality: Strategic marketing can...
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Your Startup Just Cashed its First VC or Angel Check – Now What?
After the first angel or VC funding round closes and the checks are cashed, most startups go through a transformation, like from a caterpillar to a butterfly, that makes them fundamentally different...
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Ten Reasons Why Not to Use Convertible Debt
It seems like a majority of pre-Series A deals are done with convertible debt these days and I’d like to point out a few reasons why this is a bad thing for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Just to...
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Creating an Angel Investor Certification Test
Many professional organizations have a certification test of competency that members must pass to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to perform at a high level. Doctors, Lawyers, CPA’s and other...
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MicroVCs are Changing the Landscape of Venture Capital
As the cost of starting a tech company has gone down, VCs have moved upstream, funding bigger and bigger deals while angels and angel groups have taken up the sub-five million funding space. Meanwhile,...
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Angel Investors Should Focus on IRR vs. ROI Multiples
In a panel on angel return data at the Angel Capital Association Summit recently the speaker went back and forth between data using ROI (multiples of the original investment) and IRR (internal rate of...
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Primary vs. Secondary Impact Investing
All impact investing can be divided into primary or secondary impact and impact investors should understand the difference. We define “primary impact” as impact that is caused by the company carrying...
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How an Impact Venture Capital Fund Thinks About its Investment Thesis
Venture Capital Funds all have a thesis about what makes them tick and why institutional and individual investors would join them as Limited Partners. Social and Environmental Impact Funds often...
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A Message for Startup CEOs During Pandemic
If you are a startup CEO, or work for a startup – these are challenging times. The world as you know it is on hiatus, and uncertainty reigns. I would like to share some wise advice from my friend and...
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How to Network at a Virtual Conference
Like many of you, I attended my first virtual conference a few months ago and while the content was great, I missed the networking that I value so much from conferences. Now, I’m planning my second...
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The New Normal – Startups Define Post Pandemic Life
Part One: The New Normal of Work Think back on your life before the Global Financial Crisis. It seemed ok, and then disaster hit. In the following few years, startups created new ways of living in a...
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Quarterly VC funding for female founders drops to three-year low
Read Full Report on Pitchbook In a new report focused female-founded ventures, Pitchbook has identified a concerning downward trend in VC funding for women-led companies. Their data reflects a decline...
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Venture Capital Funding Remains Strong Through Q3 2020
Read Full Report from PwC / CB Insights Two weeks ago, we highlighted Pitchbook data showing quarterly VC funding for female founders had dropped to three-year low in Q3 2020. Despite this contraction...
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