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April 04, 2007
How To Make A Good VC Deal - Venture Hacks
A lot of readers have been asking for insights into raising venture capital and intelligence on who the better VCs are.
Our readers don't feel like being lunch.
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Preferred is something more like this ...
The whale shark feeds mainly on plankton, as opposed to small fish and surfing startup founders.
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One response to those requests is to boost that line of questioning in our interviews. But we also are looking out for new information sources. The VC Ratings blog, which is written by experienced venture market journalists, has plans afoot to start delivering more in that line, we note.
In the meantime, one of our regular readers, a serial entrepreneur with a new-not-yet funded venture, wrote in hailing a new blog called Venture Hacks with topics like Term Sheet Hacks and Create a Board That Reflects the Ownership of the Company. It's co-creator describes it as a "tell all" site that helps entrepreneurs get on an even footing with their better-informed counterparts when negotiating an investment.
We checked it out and think that it's looking good. It's not been around long so the volume of posts is fairly shallow, though. One of the authors is an entrepreneur. The other is an "entrepreneur in residence" at Atlas Venture - a role that invovles scouting for investsments, advising the VC firm on investments and startups, and sometimes take an operational role at a portfolio company - so he is not exactly an outsider.
Nevertheless, so far, the tips, advice, and insider views are useful, or as our colleague wrote "as good as it gets".
We say that the comments are also well worth reading too.
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