Index

  1. 1871 (venture environment)

 

  1. Accel Partners
  2. Accountants, venture capital recommendation
  3. Accredited investor, SEC definition
  4. Ackman, William
  5. Acquisition
    1. benefits
  6. Advanced materials, potential
  7. Aging, conquest
    1. potential
  8. AIDS epidemic
  9. Airbnb
    1. economic model, fundamental risks
    2. unicorn, valuation
    3. valuation
  10. Allen, Paul
  11. Allstate Insurance Company
    1. lead investor
    2. support
    3. Venture Capital Division
  12. Alphabet
    1. growth
    2. success
  13. Alumni placement offices, contact
  14. Amazon
    1. growth
    2. second wave
  15. Ambiguity
  16. American Express
    1. investment
      1. avoidance
    2. shares, purchase
  17. America Online (AOL)
    1. creation
    2. first wave
    3. initial price
    4. renaming
    5. restaging
    6. success
    7. Time Warner merger
  18. Andreessen, Marc
  19. Angel Capital Association
    1. investments
    2. presentation
  20. Angel groups
    1. impact
  21. AngelList (Angel List)
  22. Annual gross IRR, performance
  23. Annualized return, return multiple (relationship)
  24. AOL, examination
  25. Apprentices, usage
  26. Arch Development Company
    1. creation
  27. Arch Funds
  28. Argonne National Laboratories
  29. Artificial blood
    1. development
    2. requirement
  30. Artificial intelligence
    1. expertise
    2. importance
    3. potential
  31. Asian Flu
  32. Asset allocation, importance
  33. Asset class, diversification
  34. Athena SA, funding
  35. Atlantic America Cablevision
  36. Attorneys
    1. lead investor, attorney (role)
    2. rainmaker attorney, impact
    3. venture capital recommendation

     

  37. B2B tech companies, public relations specialization
  38. Balance sheets, usage
  39. Bankers, lower cost funds (sources)
  40. Banking relationship
  41. Batterson, Bill
  42. Batterson Johnson Wang
  43. Batterson, Len
    1. funds, performance
    2. strategic focus
    3. teams
    4. venture capital investment
      1. approach
      2. principles
  44. Batterson Venture Capital
    1. experience
    2. investment
  45. Bear market, venture capital hedge
  46. Berkshire Hathaway
    1. dollars, channeling
    2. GE investment
    3. running
    4. shareholders, fortune
  47. Beyond.com
  48. Big data
    1. potential
  49. Biological advances, information flow (usage)
  50. Biological computers, potential
  51. Biology, computer basis
  52. Biomedical supplies, potential
  53. Blair, William
  54. Blank, Steve
  55. Board of directors
    1. entrepreneurial vision
    2. governance, focus
    3. meetings
      1. conflicts
    4. outsiders, presence
    5. population
    6. referrals
    7. responsibility
    8. strength
    9. venture guardianship
  56. Bond market, venture capital (correlation)
  57. Born to Run (Springsteen)
  58. Brands, focus
  59. Brokerage firm stock market analysts, news (impact)
  60. Buffett, Warren
    1. financial acumen
    2. investments
    3. investor success
    4. losses
    5. presentation (1999), impact
    6. risk aversion
  61. Buffett, Warren (real investment rules)
    1. venture capital investment, contrast
  62. Buffett, Warren (returns), venture capital returns (contrast)
  63. Business
    1. active participants, impact
    2. building, process
    3. domain, knowledge
    4. future cash flow
    5. generalist, role
    6. investment
    7. running
    8. short-term orientation
    9. time intensiveness
    10. valuation, basics
      1. application
    11. value, definition
  64. Buy and hold

 

  1. Cancer
    1. cure, models
    2. venture capital targeting
  2. Capital
    1. formation
    2. raising
  3. Case, Steve
  4. Cash conservers, VC preference
  5. Cash flow
    1. future cash flow
    2. positive cash flow
    3. problems
  6. Cash return
  7. Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
  8. Chicago, entrepreneurial ecosystem (emergence)
  9. Chief executive officer (CEO)
    1. finding
    2. responsibility
  10. Chief financial officer (CFO), role
  11. Chuxing, Didi
  12. Cinderella feeling
  13. Cinderellas, avoidance
  14. CircleUp (Circle Up)
  15. Citibank
    1. support
  16. Cleversafe
    1. acquisition, benefits
    2. creation
    3. investment
    4. sale
    5. VCapital firm
  17. Clinton, Bill
  18. Coca-Cola
    1. Buffett investment
    2. investment
      1. avoidance
    3. shares, purchase
  19. Co-investors, requirement
  20. College endowments
  21. Commercial opportunities, provision
  22. Companies
    1. brands, impact
    2. building
      1. process
    3. constituencies
    4. going public
    5. investment
      1. long-term prospects
    6. long-term prospects
    7. price control
    8. sale
      1. issues
      2. techniques
  23. Comparables
  24. Compelling economics, requirement
  25. Competition, fear (rejection)
  26. Competitive strengths
  27. Compuserve, first wave
  28. Computers
    1. integration
    2. intelligence
  29. Control Data Corporation
  30. Control Video Corporation (CVC)
    1. initial investment
    2. initial price
    3. investment, examination
    4. problem
  31. Creators
  32. Crisis management, requirement
  33. Cumulative funds, investment
  34. Cuomo, Andrew
  35. Customer service, company commitment
  36. CyberSource
    1. sale

     

  37. Data, openness/validation
  38. Data storage, impact
  39. Deals
    1. deal-doing lawyer, usage
    2. diversification
    3. failure rate
    4. high-quality deal flow
    5. loss
    6. price, importance
    7. process
    8. riskiness
    9. sale, techniques
    10. valuation
    11. venture capital investor experience
    12. venture capitalist evaluation
  40. Deal screening
  41. Decision-making power
  42. Diversification, approach
  43. Dot-com bubble
  44. Downside risks
  45. Due diligence
    1. absence
    2. efforts
    3. examination
    4. follow-up
    5. importance
    6. investment, return
    7. limited due diligence, awareness
    8. meeting
      1. time, shortness
    9. process
    10. questioning, focus
    11. rigor
  46. Dytel Corporation, startup

 

  1. Early-stage company, board of directors population
  2. Early-stage entrepreneur, venture funding process problem
  3. Early-stage financings, completion
  4. Early-stage focus
  5. Early-stage investment
  6. Early-stage ventures
    1. capital
    2. capitalist perspective
    3. expense
    4. teams, composition
  7. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), requirement
  8. Emperor of all Maladies, The (Mukherjee)
  9. Enhance compound, combination
  10. Entity, versatility (factors)
  11. Entrepreneur
    1. boldness/daring
    2. cultivation
    3. drive, denominator
    4. ecosystem, emergence
    5. essence
    6. exit
    7. experience, importance
    8. facility/plant tour
    9. failures
    10. future
    11. imbalance, perception
    12. impact
    13. independence/resourcefulness
    14. interview
    15. investment pricing advice
    16. maturity, importance
    17. nature/nurture, contrast
    18. online firm invitation
    19. optimism
    20. option
    21. passion
    22. positive difference, opportunity
    23. preference
    24. private company status
    25. reality, recognition
    26. success
    27. support
    28. timing, importance
    29. trouble
    30. venture capitalist, relationship
    31. venture capital recommendation
    32. venture investor, relationship
  12. Entrepreneurship, internal drive/external impact
  13. Environment, impact
  14. Equity crowdfunders, impact
  15. Evans, Christopher
  16. Executive search consultants
  17. Executive search firm, usage
  18. Exit
    1. components
    2. no-exit exit option
    3. options
      1. range
    4. success
  19. Expansion stage
    1. venture capitalist perspective
  20. Expansion stage (venture capital)
  21. Experience (entrepreneur), importance
  22. Expert middlemen, usage

 

  1. Facebook
    1. second wave
    2. unicorn valuation
  2. Facility tour
  3. Fear of competition rejection
  4. Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
    1. mentality
    2. motivation, absence
    3. results
  5. Fee orientation
  6. Financial crisis (2008)
  7. Financial structure, competitiveness
  8. Financing
    1. rounds, dollar magnitude (impact)
  9. FindTheCompany, com, database
  10. First wave
  11. Fuller, Buckminster
  12. FundersClub
  13. Funder's Club
  14. Fundraisers, approaches
  15. Funds, sources
  16. Future discounted cash flow, projection

 

  1. Gain, potential
  2. Galvin, Christopher
  3. Gates, Bill
  4. GEICO, investment
  5. General Electric (GE)
    1. Berkshire Hathaway investment
    2. investment, avoidance
  6. Genetic code, ordering/functioning
  7. Genome, potential
  8. Geographic proximity, impact
  9. Gladwin, Chris
  10. Going public
    1. investment banker drive
    2. risks
    3. rumor/ruin vulnerability
  11. Golder, Stan
  12. Gold, prospecting
  13. Google
    1. Groupon offer
    2. growth
    3. initial public offering
    4. second wave
    5. unicorn valuation
  14. Go-to-market strategy
  15. Governance, focus
  16. Groupon
    1. lessons
    2. post-IPO problems
  17. Growth-driven organizational changes, impact
  18. Growth potential
    1. business domain, knowledge

     

  19. Hard assets
  20. Hard liabilities
  21. Harvard Business School
  22. Hedge Fund Research, Inc.
  23. Hedge funds, attractiveness (absence)
  24. Helix
  25. Hindenburg (airship)
  26. Holmes, Elizabeth
    1. downfall
  27. Horizons, plan
  28. Human brain, function
  29. Human needs, hierarchy
  30. Human values, promotion

 

  1. IBM, Cleversafe acquisition
  2. Icahn, Carl
  3. Illinois Superconductor (ISCO International)
  4. Immunology, potential
  5. Inco
    1. support
  6. Inflation, venture capital hedge
  7. Information flow, usage
  8. Information technology, advances
  9. Inherent risk
  10. Initial public offering (IPO)
    1. advance
    2. attempt, abandonment
    3. consideration
    4. emphasis
    5. going public
    6. indication
    7. irrational exuberance
    8. prices, impact
    9. public companies
    10. success
  11. Innovation
    1. increase
    2. innovation-driven wealth
    3. market-changing innovation
    4. waves
  12. Intel, development
  13. Intensity Therapeutics
  14. Interest rates, impact
  15. Internal drive
  16. Internal rate of return (IRR)
    1. annual gross IRR, performance
    2. percentage level
    3. realized IRR performance data
    4. representation
  17. Internet
    1. bubble
    2. creation/development
    3. potential
    4. Third Wave
  18. Internet of Everything
  19. Internet of Things
  20. Intrinsic value
  21. Intuition
  22. Investment
    1. administration tasks
    2. bankers
      1. going public
      2. salesperson role
      3. venture capitalists, contrast
    3. banking firms, going public
    4. deal stages, VC perspective
    5. dollars, impact
    6. duration/multiplet
    7. entrepreneur pricing advice
    8. exit
    9. level
    10. location
    11. long-term investment
    12. low-cost money source
    13. low-to-fair prices, purchase
    14. non-monetary costs, consideration
    15. opportunities
    16. overpayment, avoidance
    17. price, importance/trickiness
    18. requirement
    19. restrictions
    20. returns
    21. risk
    22. selection
    23. success
      1. finding
    24. target company, leadership
    25. understanding
    26. venture capitalist evaluation
  23. Investors
    1. advice
    2. experience, accumulation
    3. holdings, liquidation
    4. lead investor
      1. roles
      2. selection
    5. locating
    6. minority investor, impact
    7. money, board of director guardianship
    8. returns, delivery
  24. Irrational exuberance

 

  1. JOBS Act
    1. passage
    2. Title III, provisions (impact)
  2. Jobs, Steve
  3. Jupiter Networks

 

  1. Keytruda (Merck)
  2. Kimsey, Jim
  3. Kleiner Perkins
  4. Kraft Heinz, investment

 

  1. Later stage (venture capitalist perspective)
    1. rounds
  2. Late stage (venture capital)
  3. Lawyers
    1. deal-doing lawyer, usage
    2. deal process
    3. deal, speed (importance)
    4. firms, billing
    5. locating
    6. realities
    7. types, consideration
  4. Leadership
    1. experience
    2. vigilance
  5. Lead investor
    1. attorney, role
    2. role
    3. selection
  6. Legal boilerplate
  7. Legal consistency, importance
  8. Legal counsel, finding
  9. Legal orientation, degrees (differences)
  10. Limited due diligence, awareness
  11. LinkedIn, usage
  12. Liquidation, risk
  13. Liquidity
  14. Litigation, absence
  15. Long-term gain, maximization
  16. Long-term investment
  17. Low-cost money source, investment readiness
  18. Lower cost funds, sources
  19. Lyles, Pat

 

  1. Machine learning, expertise
  2. Machine vision
    1. startups, impact
    2. virtual reality
  3. Management
    1. approval, risk
    2. changes, making
    3. complications/challenges
    4. crisis management, requirement
    5. emasculation
    6. team
      1. impact
      2. strength, importance
  4. Market
    1. capitalization
    2. changes, innovation
    3. evolution
    4. market-changing innovation
    5. research
    6. scare (2008)
    7. uniqueness
  5. Matter, emergence
  6. Maturity (entrepreneur), importance
  7. Median PE buyout fund, performance
  8. Mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) scene
  9. Mergers, complementary business
  10. Merrill Piccard
  11. Micro Millennium, The (Evans)
  12. Microsoft
    1. unicorn valuation
  13. Minority investor, impact
  14. Mistakes, minimization
  15. Money
    1. contacts
    2. expense
    3. impact
    4. making
    5. raising
      1. process, facilitation
    6. search
      1. targeting, VC industry focus basis
    7. seduction
    8. targeting
  16. MoneyTree Report (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
  17. Montgomery Medical Ventures
  18. Moore, Gordon
  19. Moore's Law, change
  20. Morgan Stanley, books (markdown)
  21. Morganstein, Sanford
    1. interview
    2. investor backing
    3. takeover concerns
  22. Morris, John
  23. Motivation, risk (relationship)
  24. Mukherjee, Siddhartha
  25. Munger, Charlie
  26. Mutual fund-type, adoption

 

  1. Nanophase Technologies Corporation
    1. creation
    2. founding
  2. Nanotechnology
    1. domain
  3. NASDAQ, decline
  4. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
  5. National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
    1. yearbook, stage definitions
  6. Nature, nurture (contrast)
  7. Navteq, change
  8. Near-term stock market, impact
  9. Nemesis
  10. Net revenue
  11. Netscape, creation
  12. New Enterprise Associates
  13. News, control
  14. New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) composite trading, shares (change)
  15. No-called-strike game
  16. No-exit exit option
  17. Nokia, sale
  18. Non-accredited individual investors, venture capital investment
  19. Non-monetary costs, consideration
  20. Norfolk Southern, investment
  21. Northfield Laboratories

 

  1. Offspring, designing/building
  2. Oil, drilling
  3. Online equity crowdfunders
  4. Online venture capital (VC)
    1. investment
      1. platforms
      2. portals, emergence
    2. portals
  5. Our Crowd (OurCrowd)
  6. Overpayment, avoidance
  7. Ownership dilution, protection

 

  1. Palantir, resource
  2. Passive index-type
  3. PayPal
    1. initiation
    2. subscription
  4. PD-1 inhibitors
  5. Peer review, importance
  6. Pension funds
  7. People-building
  8. Photo settings/attire, information
  9. PitchBook
  10. PolyHeme, usage
  11. Pooled account, investment
  12. Portfolio companies
    1. involvement
  13. Positive cash flow
  14. Post-seed stage (venture capital)
  15. Power, seduction
  16. Predictive analytics
    1. expertise
    2. potential
  17. Prices, company control
  18. Private company
    1. status
    2. valuation
  19. Private equity
    1. buyout funds, attractiveness (absence)
    2. forms
  20. Private markets
  21. Private partnership
  22. Processing power, improvement
  23. Processing speed, impact
  24. Prodigy, first wave
  25. Product
    1. development
    2. marketplace
    3. uniqueness
  26. Production capacity, increase
  27. Public company
    1. emergence
    2. management
    3. status
  28. Public markets, betting
  29. Public offering, rigors

 

  1. Quantum Computer

 

  1. Rainmaker attorney, impact
  2. Real estate investment
  3. Realized IRR performance data
  4. Returns
    1. multiple, annualized return (relationship)
  5. Revenue, achievement
  6. Revolutionary investments, understanding
  7. Reward
    1. endeavor
    2. potential
    3. profile
    4. risk/reward tradeoff
    5. stress dilemma
  8. Right-brain processing
  9. Risk
    1. degrees, differences
    2. endeavor
    3. investment risk
    4. management
      1. issues, focus
    5. motivation, relationship
    6. profile
    7. risk/reward tradeoff
    8. stress dilemma
    9. vulnerability
  10. River, Charles
  11. Robotics
    1. consciousness
    2. machines, impact
    3. potential
    4. virtual reality, usage
  12. Rock, Arthur
  13. Rosenstein, Barry

 

  1. Sales
    1. complementary business
    2. cycle, length
  2. Schroeder, Alice
  3. Sears, product/service sale
  4. Second wave
  5. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), specialists
  6. Seed-capital investors, motivation
  7. Seed-capital stage
  8. SeedInvest
  9. Seed investor
  10. Seed stage
    1. venture capital
    2. venture capitalist perspective
  11. Sensation, impact
  12. Share pricing, maximization
  13. Short-term markets, changes
  14. Sidecar fund
  15. Silicon Valley, venture capital firms
  16. Snicker test
  17. Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Schroeder)
  18. Soft liabilities
  19. Software
    1. efficiency, impact
    2. modification speed, impact
    3. packages
  20. Software.net
  21. Species, knowledge
  22. Springsteen, Bruce
  23. Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P500), long-term returns
  24. Startups
    1. Cambrian explosion
    2. fragility
  25. Stemberg, Tom
  26. Stock market, venture capital (correlation)
  27. Suppliers, lower cost funds (sources)

 

  1. Takeover, approach
  2. Talent, search
  3. Team member maturity, perspective
  4. Technological infrastructure, enrichment
  5. Technological innovations
  6. Technology advancement
  7. Theranos
    1. downfall
    2. postmortem analysis
    3. Walgreen lawsuit
  8. Thiel, Peter
    1. investment strategy
  9. Third Wave
  10. Third Wave, The (Case)
  11. Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Research Index
  12. Time Warner, AOL merger
  13. Title III. See JOBS Act
  14. Trump, Donald
    1. administration, policies (impact)
  15. Trust, building
  16. Tullman, Howard
  17. Twitter, second wave

 

  1. Uber
    1. cash flow generation
    2. investment
    3. valuation
      1. EBITDA requirement
    4. withdrawal (China)
  2. Ultra-small, understanding/use
  3. Unicorns
    1. early-stage investment, belief
    2. exit, difficulty
    3. investors
      1. concerns
      2. returns, delivery
    4. logic, application
    5. mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) scene
    6. no-exit exit option
    7. seduction, avoidance
    8. valuations
      1. decrease
      2. excess
      3. problems
  4. Union Bank
  5. Union Pacific, investment
  6. United States, Midwest (percentage impact)f
  7. University of Chicago
  8. University of Illinois
  9. Upside opportunities
  10. U.S. Treasury bills, interest rates

 

  1. VCapital
    1. focus
    2. investment
    3. minimum individual investment requirement
    4. resurrection
    5. team, executives (impact)
  2. Venture capital (VC)
    1. appeal
    2. community, evolution
    3. conservative investor usage
    4. contacts/middlemen, identification
    5. counsel, development
    6. deal, speed (importance)
    7. documents, impact
    8. early stage (post-seed stage)
    9. expansion stage
    10. fairs
    11. financing
    12. firm
      1. focus
      2. selection
    13. focus
    14. future
    15. gains
    16. group, management change
    17. hedges
    18. historical returns
    19. industry, concerns
    20. institutional usage
    21. investors, success
    22. late stage
    23. lawyer, knowledge
    24. management
    25. money, expense
    26. objective
    27. online equity crowdfunders
    28. online VC portals
    29. opportunity, increase
    30. physical, usage
    31. process, knowledge
    32. raising
      1. experience, difficulty
      2. process
    33. returns
      1. Buffett returns, contrast
    34. risk/reward
      1. tradeofff
    35. seed stage
    36. stock/bond markets, correlation
    37. success
    38. targeting
    39. team, exit
    40. time-intensive business
    41. treatment (importance), respect/sincerity (usage)
    42. VC-backed issues, liquidation
    43. VC-funded ventures, requirement
    44. venture capital-backed company
      1. IPO
      2. vulnerability
    45. visualization
  3. Venture Capital Division (Allstate)
  4. Venture capital (VC) firm
    1. candidates, vetting
    2. landscape, survey
    3. location process
    4. stage focus
  5. Venture capital (VC) firm selection
    1. geographic focus
    2. industry focus
    3. resources
    4. venture stage focus
  6. Venture capital (VC) investment
    1. Buffett's real investment rules, contrast
    2. business valuation basics, application
    3. decision
    4. diversification
    5. emotional reasons
    6. long-term nature
    7. non-accredited individual investors, involvement
    8. online platforms
    9. opportunities
    10. principles, similarity
    11. reason
    12. reward
    13. risk
    14. riskiness
    15. success, formula
  7. Venture capital (VC) investors
    1. exit, provision
    2. locating
    3. sources/dollars
    4. time, importance
  8. Venture capitalist (VC)
    1. advice
    2. ambiguity
    3. appeal, process
    4. appetite
    5. approach
    6. business, learning
    7. contact
      1. making
    8. control position
    9. deal stages
    10. difference
    11. early stage perspective
    12. effectiveness
    13. entrepreneur
      1. preference
      2. relationship
    14. expansion stage perspective
    15. experience, impact
    16. firms, money targeting
    17. geographic location
    18. impact
    19. industry focus, money search
    20. introduction, expert middlemen (usage)
    21. intuitive/analytical skills
    22. investment
      1. bankers, contrast
      2. price
    23. later stage
    24. list, narrowing
    25. marriage counselor, analogy
    26. professional approach
    27. public offering
    28. pursuit, three-step method
    29. real value creation
    30. screening, process
    31. seed stage
    32. skepticism
    33. strategic orientation
    34. workload, change
  9. Venture geography
  10. Venture growth/maturation
  11. Venture investor, entrepreneur (relationship)
  12. Ventures
    1. board of directors, guardianship role
    2. evolution, talent search
    3. failure
    4. funding process, problems
    5. investing
    6. money, level (elevation)
    7. screening stage, passage
  13. Venture screening, handling
  14. Verizon, acquisition
  15. Virtual reality (VR)
    1. potential
    2. simulation
  16. Visa International
    1. CyberSource sale
  17. Volatile public markets, betting
  18. Von Meister, Bill
    1. lessons

     

  19. Walgreens, lawsuit
  20. WalkerSands Communications
  21. Washington Post investment (avoidance)
  22. Working capital, provision
  23. Wrigley
    1. investment
      1. avoidance
    2. shares, purchase

     

  24. Yale University, endowment

 

  1. Zero to One (Thiel)
  2. Zuckerberg, Mark
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