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Despite all of the writing on venture capital, there is a missing part of the literature. There has been no book written about raising a venture capital fund. It remains a secret to a few privileged venture capitalists who have gone through this fundraising process. Until now . . .
This book serves as a guide. It dives into the process of raising a venture capital fund, the how-tos, the unique language of the limited partner (LP) world, secrets of how LPs think about fund diligence and alignment, the best practices in fundraising, what works, and how you can best prepare for success.
I've written this book after spending a decade investing into venture capital funds at a $30B wealth management firm and a $160B technology company. I've been on both sides of the table, the VC and the LP side. I've been behind the scenes managing every aspect of the fundraising process, investing into 80 funds, and reviewing thousands of fund investments. I also co-founded a company that specifically focuses on co-building venture capital businesses, which includes helping VCs understand the intricate dynamics of raising a venture capital fund. After reading my book, you will gain the knowledge and insights gained from these experiences.
New technologies are an investment minefield. Putting money behind them means taking a risk on unproven ventures, often from inexperienced (and potentially unscrupulous) developers.
While some will lead the investor to fantastic gains, many others turn out to be mere bubbles - a flimsy veneer of excitement and hype with little profitable at the core. But ignoring these technologies can be even worse, as this can mean failing to capitalise on the next great step in innovation. From cryptocurrencies, blockchain, the metaverse, Web3, and NFTs, to self-driving vehicles, delivery drones, solid state batteries, eVTOLs, and more, technology bubbles have been inflating and popping for many years. Each time a bubble pops, tens if not hundreds of billions of investment dollars disappear with them. Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles arms the reader with the tools required to differentiate between bubbles and genuine, sustainable technological revolutionaries. Under the expert tutelage of Jeffrey Funk, you will learn:
Find the money to execute your brilliant business ideas
Funding a New Business For Dummies drills down to the top question on the minds of entrepreneurs--where can you find the funds to launch your new business? Connecting the dots between your vision and the capital needed to make it happen can be one of the most challenging parts of entrepreneurship. This book helps you over that hurdle, giving you the essential information and advice you need to navigate the path from idea to execution of a business plan.
Discover how to evaluate all the options available, from tapping into your own savings to traditional loans to newer options like crowdfunding. You'll also dive into finding and negotiating with investors, as well as managing your capital once it's in hand. Start by visualizing business success, and then put in the work to make it happen, with the help of this no-nonsense Dummies guide.
Anyone in the early days of launching a business will find a treasure trove of valuable information in Funding a New Business For Dummies.
Despite all of the writing on venture capital, there is a missing part of the literature. There has been no book written about raising a venture capital fund. It remains a secret to a few privileged venture capitalists who have gone through this fundraising process. Until now . . .
This book serves as a guide. It dives into the process of raising a venture capital fund, the how-tos, the unique language of the limited partner (LP) world, secrets of how LPs think about fund diligence and alignment, the best practices in fundraising, what works, and how you can best prepare for success.
I've written this book after spending a decade investing into venture capital funds at a $30B wealth management firm and a $160B technology company. I've been on both sides of the table, the VC and the LP side. I've been behind the scenes managing every aspect of the fundraising process, investing into 80 funds, and reviewing thousands of fund investments. I also co-founded a company that specifically focuses on co-building venture capital businesses, which includes helping VCs understand the intricate dynamics of raising a venture capital fund. After reading my book, you will gain the knowledge and insights gained from these experiences.
No one has ever explained how a venture capitalist plays an active role in creating world-changing companies. The venture capitalist often hires the senior management, helps develop the business model, introduces the company to its largest customers, and provides governance. It is a role akin to being an entrepreneur, not just an investor. This book tells stories of the good, the bad, and the ugly of creating companies, and explains how the VC industry created 80 percent of the American economy. The industry now faces severely damaging legislation. Venture capital is different from leverage buyouts and hedge funds and needs to be regulated in an entirely different way.
(DECEMBER 2024: New online bonus content and chapters)
Unlock strategies and tactics used by successful entrepreneurs. See how they validate ideas, launch startups, and build successful profitable startups.
The 6 Startup Stages is your guide to navigating the complex world of startup life and turning your vision into reality.
Inside this book, learn how to:
The authors continue to invest into and build successful, profitable SaaS startups that generate millions in annual revenue. As serial entrepreneurs, startup founders, and startup investors who have advised hundreds of startups worldwide, they share their insider tips that enable startups to scale. This book provides a roadmap and real-world guidance for each stage of the startup lifecycle. No matter what stage you are at, we know you can benefit from this book and its guidance - helping you avoid mistakes by learning from hard-fought lessons we have been through.
This book includes:
Stop letting doubts hold you back. If you are considering launching a startup, joining a startup accelerator, or simply seeking startup advice to turn your idea into a business, this book will help guide you. This startup book is perfect for any non-technical founder looking to build a business from the ground up or needing to know how to scale an existing startup.
The Pitch Deck Book is a step-by-step guide to raising seed capital from Venture Capital and Angel investors. This guide was built by Tim Cooley who has spent more than 10 years screening deals and raising more than $200M in seed and early-stage capital for over 100+ companies.
The Pitch Deck Book is-hands-down-the clearest, simplest, and most concise guide ever written to creating and delivering an effective startup fundraising pitch. Three hours spent reading and applying the lessons in Tim Cooley's book will save you thirty hours of well-meaning-but-ineffective feedback from random advisors. Tim comes from the perspectives of both a founder and an investor, and as the Executive Director of a highly regarded angel group, he is EXACTLY the audience your pitch is aimed at. Founders around the world (not to mention investors who have to sit through awful pitches!) owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.
-David S. Rose, The Pitch Coach, author of The Startup Checklist and Angel Investing, founder of New York Angels.
Inside The Pitch Deck Book, you will find a guide to creating all the key elements you will need to engage investors. You will learn everything you need to do before you ever set up a meeting. You will learn the best format to present your business so that investors will get excited about your business. Finally, you will be shown a number of actual pitch decks with some of the most common issues that most founders come across when they pitch. Not only do you see the actual decks used, but also the feedback on how to fix them.If you do not want to be the 99% of companies who never get funded and are looking for the most comprehensive way to present your business to investors, this is the book for you.
For more information and to get a FREE one-pager builder go to my website: TIMLCOOLEY.COM
The first of it's kind, #BreakIntoVC is an essential guide for anyone looking to gain a straightforward knowledge base on the fundamentals of venture capital. Providing research, resources, anecdotes, and information, #BreakIntoVC will help college undergrads make the most of interviews and meetings while demystifying venture capital and making the industry accessible.
With a small number of opportunities in venture capital and a growing candidate pool, set yourself up for success by getting the insights from insiders. By reading this book, you'll have a clear understanding of what an incoming analyst in a venture capital firm should know. You'll get the basics of accounting, how to pitch companies and understand valuation techniques from early to late stage companies.
If you're exploring the industry or if you're curious about venture investing, #BreakIntoVC is a great book to get you started.
The Venture Capital Investment Framework
Venture capital is the economic engine that drives entrepreneurship and innovation through capital investments, board membership, advice, introductions to relevant employees, and customers. Despite the outsized importance of venture capital, the inner workings remain hidden. Venture is still a mentor-led industry and it is an industry where you have to do a lot of self-education--you have to learn by doing, and you have to get up to speed quickly.
Until now.
Author William Lin spent over a decade in venture capital, starting in an entry-level position, helping to start a leading VC firm from scratch, and eventually becoming Managing Partner. In The VC Field Guide: Fundamentals of Venture Capital, Lin shares his unique framework, the Venture Capital Investment Framework, to help any venture capitalist, entrepreneur, or investor make better investment decisions, quicker. He delivers an incisive and practical handbook for the world of venture capital. You'll learn about the industry, how to break into it, and discover the art of investing in startups, and more, including:
If you want to be close to company creation and innovation as a venture capitalist, investor, or entrepreneur, this book is for you. If you want to be involved in situations that impact economic growth, innovation, and the founders, employees, vendors, and communities that support the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem, this book is for you. The VC Field Guide is not only a primer on the inner workings of the venture capital industry, but a timely framework for how investment decisions are made. Anyone who wants to better understand how venture capital investments are made, and why will find this book helpful.
Now You Can Get the Money You Need to Start and Grow Your Business with Experienced Insight from One of the Nation's Premier CPA Firms
This book by nationally-known author and CPA, Marvin Morse, is the result of decades of thought and is born out of the need to provide entrepreneurs and business owners clear and concise information about how to raise capital and borrow money. It might sound trivial, but after decades of helping people set up corporations, Marvin Morse came to an inescapable conclusion-Most people do not know how to go about raising capital for a start-up business. The process can be very complicated as well as intimidating.
Launching a new busines that requires start-up capital presents a unique set of challenges for the entrepreneur. There are many questions that must be answered, and knowing who to work with, how much you will need and how to complete the process in a timely manner are all critical to the success of your new venture. Now, through this easy-to-read book, Marvin Morse tells you everything you need to know about raising capital in story form. It is the perfect way to grasp the critically important concepts so you are well informed and can make your business decisions with complete confidence.
Investors don't back entrepreneurs, they back Investable Entrepreneurs
Too many brilliant business ideas are killed by poor communication, leaving investors unable to understand the very basics of the business. When it comes to pitching, clarity is key.
'The Six Principles of the Perfect Pitch' is a proven process that will help to make your pitch powerful, get you noticed, generate interest and have investors queuing up to help you succeed.
Read this book to understand:
- The mind of an investor and what they are looking for- What funding assets you need for a successful investment campaign
- How to promote your investment opportunity to relevant investors
- How to increase your likelihood of success by 30×
No one has ever explained how a venture capitalist plays an active role in creating world-changing companies. The venture capitalist often hires the senior management, helps develop the business model, introduces the company to its largest customers, and provides governance. It is a role akin to being an entrepreneur, not just an investor. This book tells stories of the good, the bad, and the ugly of creating companies, and explains how the VC industry created 80 percent of the American economy. The industry now faces severely damaging legislation. Venture capital is different from leverage buyouts and hedge funds and needs to be regulated in an entirely different way.
When you're building something that's never been done before, there's no roadmap. You're responsible for meeting the needs of your team, clients, and partners...and of course, your investors and board members. You're juggling growth targets, internal misalignment, and raising capital-often all at once. And the whole time, you're deeply aware of the pressure from all sides. Your drive to push forward-to build, solve, and create-is unstoppable, but it can often feel like everything is on your shoulders, and you're hiking up a steep mountain buried in a fog.
It doesn't have to be that way. Build the right team, and you'll go from facing challenges alone to maximizing opportunities together. Jeff James Martin has spent a two-decade career on the ground with VC-backed teams trying to answer the question: What makes some VC-backed companies succeed, and others fail? This book holds the answer.
Peak Teams is a holistic blueprint for building an unstoppable team and empowering them with the core habits that create winning behaviors. In this book, you'll learn the Peak Teams System, a framework of habits and tools designed specifically for venture-backed teams. With the alignment, focus, accountability, and visibility Peak provides, you'll part the fog surrounding your business and get everyone-investors, partners, clients, and employees-heading up to the mountain's peak together.
(DECEMBER 2024: New online bonus content and chapters)
Unlock strategies and tactics used by successful entrepreneurs. See how they validate ideas, launch startups, and build successful profitable startups.
The 6 Startup Stages is your guide to navigating the complex world of startup life and turning your vision into reality.
Inside this book, learn how to:
The authors continue to invest into and build successful, profitable SaaS startups that generate millions in annual revenue. As serial entrepreneurs, startup founders, and startup investors who have advised hundreds of startups worldwide, they share their insider tips that enable startups to scale. This book provides a roadmap and real-world guidance for each stage of the startup lifecycle. No matter what stage you are at, we know you can benefit from this book and its guidance - helping you avoid mistakes by learning from hard-fought lessons we have been through.
This book includes:
Stop letting doubts hold you back. If you are considering launching a startup, joining a startup accelerator, or simply seeking startup advice to turn your idea into a business, this book will help guide you. This startup book is perfect for any non-technical founder looking to build a business from the ground up or needing to know how to scale an existing startup.
