Venture Capital: A Practice Guidebook for Capital-Seeking Business, Owners, Managers and Advisors is a complete book covering the basics of venture capital funding, including a overview of venture ...

The price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock that the venture capital investor is willing to pay is equal to the pre-money valuation of the company divided by the total number of shares ...

After more than two decades of working with small, agile teams who represent large, multi-billion dollar companies, I’ve learned a few things. Most notably, in every single relationship known to man, ...

Cresa is a real estate service firm that represents tenants exclusively. Services are designed to help clients find the right space, negotiate the most favorable lease terms, and manage ...

Ditch the business plan and buy a lottery ticket. That’s what I tell new entrepreneurs who seek angel or venture funding. The odds are probably better, you will save yourself a lot of time and grief ...

VCs say a lot of cryptic stuff when we pass on an investment – partially because it make us appear smart, but mostly because we simply don't want to be assholes. So, we try as hard as we can to not ...

Unless a start-up is raising at least $750K for an angel financing, it may not make sense from a practical standpoint for it to issue preferred stock. Indeed, preferred stock financing are complicated ...

The VC environment isn't what it used to be. Guess what? That's not a bad thing. The venture environment has evolved and understanding three key trends in that evolution can be critical to getting ...

It was a rough weekend for the cloud, with an outage over at Amazon Web Services, plus a leap second bug. Steve Zivanic, at San Diego's Nirvanix, makes the case for avoiding those issues. At a time ...

Building a successful tech startup in Southern California isn't easy, but it's sure a beautiful place to start your next venture. The region has it's own set of challenges because it lacks the ...

Are you about to test the waters as an entrepreneur? One of the most important first steps is to spend a lot of time, money, and energy designing your logo since that represents your company, right?