Adding FeedFlare to LearnVC
Posted on 10. Nov, 2008 by admin in Site Specific
This post is to verify that the FeedFlares added are working correctly. If you have more advice for us, please leave a comment at your convenience.
Our first 1000+ unique visitor week
Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by admin in Site Specific
A special thanks to Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson over at the Foundry Group. Their promotion of LearnVC.com on Ask the VC has been a great boost to our traffic and exposure in the startup community. Some have sent very nice emails to us about this web-site. We welcome your feedback, and appreciate the time [...]
What is Venture Capital? Part 2
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by admin in Basics
Yesterday, I wrote about the Partners of Venture Capital as part of my “What is Venture Capital?” articles. Today, we’ll add a bit more detail using some very helpful articles written by Fred Wilson. For me, an understanding of how the money flows helped immensely: Venture Capitalists raise a fund from Limited Partners The VCs [...]
Using our graphical examples
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by admin in Site Specific
Welcome to our newest visitors! With each of the topics below it is possible to change the values. Simply select whichever field you want to modify, enter your new value, and hit the “return” key. All of the computations will be redone without the need to reload your web-page. As I was coming up the [...]
Welcome to our new visitors
Posted on 02. Nov, 2008 by admin in Site Specific
This week we begin active promotion for LearnVC. Over the past few months we have been building up content and tools. Now, we would appreciate feedback from our users to further improve this site. Our preferred methods for feedback: Use IntenseDebate to leave comments on articles Email us at moc.cvnraelnull@kcabdeef Any feedback is appreciated, thanks [...]
Levers of Valuation
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by admin in Levers of Valuation
A common mistake is to only focus on the pre-money valuation when negotiating with investors/entrepreneurs. Initially we will look at 6 "Levers of Valuation" that affect a typical investment in an early stage company. This is not the complete list, but a good introduction to the concept. Pre-money valuation Investment amount Option Pool creation Liquidation [...]
