Week 3 reading for The Business of Entrepreneurship (LAWS 61702)

Week 3 (April 14)

Topics: Financing strategy and execution; Cap table.

Readings:

Available for free on the web, with links to them here (remember to read the comments of the blog posts): http://del.icio.us/jrodkin/laws61702

- “Nine Questions to Ask a Startup” – blog post by Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures
- “The Valuation Trap” – blog post by Stu Phillips, Ridgelift Ventures
- “Venture Capital Deal Algebra” – blog post by Brad Feld, Foundry Group
- “The Truth about Venture Capitalists, Part 1” – blog post by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware, and Ning
- “The Truth about Venture Capitalists, Part 2” - blog post by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware, and Ning
- “Ten Pragmatic Steps to Raising Venture Capital” – blog post by Bill Burnham, hedge fund manager (Inductive Capital) and former VC
- “Build your own Cap Table” – article at Venture Hacks. (If you need help with this one, watch the video walk through.)
- “Create a Market for your Shares” – article at Venture Hacks
- “Cap Table Hygiene” – blog post by Will Price, CEO of WidgetBox, former VC
- “Liquidation Preferences” – blog post by Brad Feld, Foundry Group
- “To Participate or Not” – blog post by Brad Feld, Foundry Group