Venture Capital Blogger

Venture Capital Characteristics What Characteristics are Unique to Venture Capital Here we present you a few of the factors that set venture capital aside from other types of financing. Venture capital generally provides funding to businesses that are in their early stages of development. The main receptors of these funds are small and medium businesses [...]

Venture Capital Recruitment Finding a Venture Capital Job Working with recruiters It’s critical to know how to work with a private equity jobs recruiter if you want to get your resume in front of the right private equity hiring firm and to give personal brand broad distribution to a group of targeted private equity job [...]

Venture Capital Investor Relations Advice for Improving Venture Capital Investor Relations It’s often the case that General Partners are at one of two sides of the Investor Relations spectrum. Either the GP wishes to improve their Limited Partner relations, but doesn’t know how to go about revamping this area; or the GP is damaging their [...]

Venture Capital Terms Definition of Venture Capital Terms So here are a few basic definitions when you are looking for money: Investor= someone who exchanges money for a share of your company. Angel Investor= an individual who invests a decent chunk of money in your company ($100-500K) in exchange for some ownership. They tend to [...]

Venture Capital Business Expansion How Venture Capital Expands Small Businesses The goal of most start-ups is to make it to initial public offering (IPO) or to be acquired by another company. The rate of failure in business start-ups is alarming. With the rise in fuel costs comes a rise in the cost of everything else, [...]

Venture Capital Benefits The Benefits of Venture Capital Not all businesses and organizations have the ability to attract venture capital. Basically, venture capital is given by a group of professional investors, which are generally looking for business opportunities that have a high rate of growth that they could invest in. They usually provide the funds [...]

Interview with Josh Lerner on the venture capital industry and new regulations.

Venture Capital Forum Audio from the Venture Capital Forum Dan Primack of PeHUB the audio from a venture capital forum that he moderated a couple months ago.  The conference is invite-only for technology entrepreneurs and investors.  Panelists included: Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Josh Kopelma (First Round Capital), Jo Tango (Kepha Partners) and Eric Hjerpe (now [...]

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Dave Berkus Video of Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor Dave Berkus David Berkus is an early stage venture capitalist and angel investor specializing in technology. Mr. Berkus serves as Managing Partner of Kodiak Ventures, L.P. and of Berkus Technology Ventures, LLC, both early stage capital investment funds – and Chairman- Emeritus of the Tech Coast [...]

Private Equity Startup Event We are putting together a panel for an investment fund startup up event scheduled for June 18th, 2009. We are looking for a private equity fund manager who would like to be on a panel sharing startup stories with other small hedge fund managers. We are looking for tips on forming [...]

Venture Capital Crisis The Venture Capital Industry in Crisis Venture capital plays a vital role in the launching of businesses in the United States. It fills a funding niche for many businesses that would have no other access to the capital required to grow. Given this fact, it should be considered troubling that the venture [...]