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| last edited by BillSeitz on Sep 1, 2008 9:13 am |
the source of initial (or at least early-stage) funding for many companies, especially during the DotCom boom.
Sometimes driven by the rush to push pseudo-companies into the hands of WallSt via IPO to cash out before the music stops.
Joel Spolsky on Fixing Venture Capital - z2003-06-04- Joel Venture Capital
standard calculations http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2004/07/venture_capital.html
spreadsheet on effects of various deal terms (liquidation preferences, etc.)
scary horror story: Charles H Ferguson's [High Stakes No Prisoners] ISBN:0812931432 (also relates to Micro Soft, since Ferguson's Vermeer created Ms Front Page, which led Micro Soft to buy them)
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