Much of the investment discussion has been focused on institutional investors and their attitudes toward investment in entrepreneurial concerns.  On the one hand, this provides some context for you as to how the “professionals� address such investments. But on the other, the vast majority of companies are funded by private investors.  In a “normal� year, [...]

Brad Feld points out that Cooley Godward has a new blog called The Business Bankruptcy Blog.  Chapter 11 is never fun as I can attest, but a good resource for information is always helpful.

This post covers entrepreneurial fund raising. Let’s review some of what we’ve discussed in recent weeks. Review of Valuation In past articles, I explained that valuation was a number agreed to by the parties involved in a transaction. While quantitative tools are used to estimate, or justify, a range of values, the actual value used [...]

I found (it came out in 2002, where have I been?) a site called the Business Plan Archive sponsored by the Library of Congress.  If you have ever written a business plan you will understand why this site is so important.  Here is how they describe the archive: Welcome to the Business Plan Archive.  In [...]

For those of you who want to create an hResume we built a creator. Check out the beta version here: hResume Creator. You simply enter your resume data, cut and then paste the code on your website. Give us the URL so we can ping it. We built the Creator for folks who don’t have [...]

Burning Man 2006 is between 8/28-9/4 this year.  Are you coming?  What is burning man? Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind. In this section you will find [...]

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I met with David Spreng back in the salad days when I was raising money.  He turned me down (see, not all his decisions were bad).  The Mercury News has a VERY hard hitting piece on Crescendo.  Why? Investors, known as limited partners, are pumping in huge amounts of money into venture firms again, but [...]

I need your help.  We do business in six different countries and need to send money to our people in those markets.  Today we wire funds to our people in those markets.  Not only are wires expensive they are fairly unreliable, often being refused or even worse held in limbo for days if not weeks. [...]

Earlier this summer, during the World Cup, I had the chance to spend some time with Jeff Clavier. He invited us to his home to talk about Big in Japan and our hope was to get to know him better. He was super busy (four offering memorandums were sitting on his kitchen table waiting to [...]