Properly designed financing instrument and rational control right arrangement can partly eliminate the agent conflicts between the entrepreneur and the venture capitalist.
If you find yourself sitting opposite a crusty old banker or impossible-to-please venture capitalist, believe me, they don't stand a chance of rejecting you, not with your star power.
One investor recounts the conversation: "We said, okay Andrew, you took venture capital, and remember venture capitalists want an exit.
As their creation expands beyond their wildest dreams, they are courted by silver-tongued venture capitalists.
Vince: I just talked with the venture capitalists. If we don't follow Zina's timeline, they'll pull the plug.
"There are several stages to an entrepreneurial company's growth cycle, and many venture capitalists limit their investment only to companies in a particular stage of growth"
For five years, it worked on building its user base and perfecting its product, resisting pleas from venture capitalists to figure out how to make money.
Banayan is the world's youngest venture capitalist.
First, a rare moment of Guy-Kawasaki humility: I am by no means "proven" as a venture capitalist.
This morning, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures discloses to the world his failure rate as a venture capitalist of 17 years (20 percent over 32 investments, which is enviable in VC circles).
Rather like the venture capitalists behind the American software industry, Mr Gates is a venture philanthropist: he backs schemes, assesses them and dumps failures.
But finding talent is only part of the appeal for venture capitalists.
He's open about his distrust of many venture capitalists, and doesn't want to be at their mercy.
In America the issue is being dealt with more cautiously, partly because of intense lobbying by the venture capitalists who have a much better standing in Congress than private-equity firms do.
Every venture capitalist, Web publisher, and digital marketer is hyper-aware of these three trends.
In his subsequent career as a venture capitalist, he made enough dosh to donate more than $1m to charity, with a few million left over to jump-start his 2010 campaign for governor.
In practice, venture capital funds, which are gathered by outside investors and managed professionally by venture capitalists, act as the investment agent.
A term sheet is a document prepared by venture capitalists that sets forth the key terms of a proposed investment.
Today, the power is shifting from the Silicon Valley "returnees" and venture capitalists to a new generation of locally trained and educated entrepreneurs.
The programme was founded in 2004 by Catherine Rohr, a venture capitalist who changed careers after visiting several Texas prisons.
It has some venture capitalists scratching their heads.
You might even talk to venture capitalists. After all, they know the top law firms.
The owners get a cash infusion but usually retain control of the firm's operations without having to deal with the level of interference they would experience with numerous venture capitalists.
But rather than rescuing sunset industries such as carmaking, Law was an early venture capitalist, financing the dynamic potential of the Mississippi delta.
Have any doubts Silicon Valley's venture capitalists are really going global?
But with many dotcoms(網絡公司) declining, neither venture capitalists nor Wall Street is eager to give them a dime, prompting a flurry of initial public offering postponements.
But Silicon Valley venture capitalists are busy replenishing the pool.
The Techmart, a technology showcase and resource centre for industrialists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, promoted Hong Kong's capability in innovation, invention and industrialisation.
But all venture capitalists should have to disclose their personal failure rates.
Such environments provide "anonymity along with a lack of social recourse, " notes, a venture capitalist at Trinity Ventures in California's Silicon Valley.
He has spent most of his working life as a venture capitalist in Manhattan.
Many venture capitalists cite a lack of “exit options”.
Too many Silicon Valley start-ups suck up millions from venture capitalists before giving their product away for free in an effort to attract a huge market share.
Startups do not have that and it is one of the reasons why venture capitalists worry about the chasm.
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