- 1871 (venture environment)
- Accel Partners
- Accountants, venture capital recommendation
- Accredited investor, SEC definition
- Ackman, William
- Acquisition
- benefits
- Advanced materials, potential
- Aging, conquest
- potential
- AIDS epidemic
- Airbnb
- economic model, fundamental risks
- unicorn, valuation
- valuation
- Allen, Paul
- Allstate Insurance Company
- lead investor
- support
- Venture Capital Division
- Alphabet
- growth
- success
- Alumni placement offices, contact
- Amazon
- growth
- second wave
- Ambiguity
- American Express
- investment
- avoidance
- shares, purchase
- America Online (AOL)
- creation
- first wave
- initial price
- renaming
- restaging
- success
- Time Warner merger
- Andreessen, Marc
- Angel Capital Association
- investments
- presentation
- Angel groups
- impact
- AngelList (Angel List)
- Annual gross IRR, performance
- Annualized return, return multiple (relationship)
- AOL, examination
- Apprentices, usage
- Arch Development Company
- creation
- Arch Funds
- Argonne National Laboratories
- Artificial blood
- development
- requirement
- Artificial intelligence
- expertise
- importance
- potential
- Asian Flu
- Asset allocation, importance
- Asset class, diversification
- Athena SA, funding
- Atlantic America Cablevision
- Attorneys
- lead investor, attorney (role)
- rainmaker attorney, impact
- venture capital recommendation
- B2B tech companies, public relations specialization
- Balance sheets, usage
- Bankers, lower cost funds (sources)
- Banking relationship
- Batterson, Bill
- Batterson Johnson Wang
- Batterson, Len
- funds, performance
- strategic focus
- teams
- venture capital investment
- approach
- principles
- Batterson Venture Capital
- experience
- investment
- Bear market, venture capital hedge
- Berkshire Hathaway
- dollars, channeling
- GE investment
- running
- shareholders, fortune
- Beyond.com
- Big data
- potential
- Biological advances, information flow (usage)
- Biological computers, potential
- Biology, computer basis
- Biomedical supplies, potential
- Blair, William
- Blank, Steve
- Board of directors
- entrepreneurial vision
- governance, focus
- meetings
- conflicts
- outsiders, presence
- population
- referrals
- responsibility
- strength
- venture guardianship
- Bond market, venture capital (correlation)
- Born to Run (Springsteen)
- Brands, focus
- Brokerage firm stock market analysts, news (impact)
- Buffett, Warren
- financial acumen
- investments
- investor success
- losses
- presentation (1999), impact
- risk aversion
- Buffett, Warren (real investment rules)
- venture capital investment, contrast
- Buffett, Warren (returns), venture capital returns (contrast)
- Business
- active participants, impact
- building, process
- domain, knowledge
- future cash flow
- generalist, role
- investment
- running
- short-term orientation
- time intensiveness
- valuation, basics
- application
- value, definition
- Buy and hold
- Cancer
- cure, models
- venture capital targeting
- Capital
- formation
- raising
- Case, Steve
- Cash conservers, VC preference
- Cash flow
- future cash flow
- positive cash flow
- problems
- Cash return
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
- Chicago, entrepreneurial ecosystem (emergence)
- Chief executive officer (CEO)
- finding
- responsibility
- Chief financial officer (CFO), role
- Chuxing, Didi
- Cinderella feeling
- Cinderellas, avoidance
- CircleUp (Circle Up)
- Citibank
- support
- Cleversafe
- acquisition, benefits
- creation
- investment
- sale
- VCapital firm
- Clinton, Bill
- Coca-Cola
- Buffett investment
- investment
- avoidance
- shares, purchase
- Co-investors, requirement
- College endowments
- Commercial opportunities, provision
- Companies
- brands, impact
- building
- process
- constituencies
- going public
- investment
- long-term prospects
- long-term prospects
- price control
- sale
- issues
- techniques
- Comparables
- Compelling economics, requirement
- Competition, fear (rejection)
- Competitive strengths
- Compuserve, first wave
- Computers
- integration
- intelligence
- Control Data Corporation
- Control Video Corporation (CVC)
- initial investment
- initial price
- investment, examination
- problem
- Creators
- Crisis management, requirement
- Cumulative funds, investment
- Cuomo, Andrew
- Customer service, company commitment
- CyberSource
- sale
- Data, openness/validation
- Data storage, impact
- Deals
- deal-doing lawyer, usage
- diversification
- failure rate
- high-quality deal flow
- loss
- price, importance
- process
- riskiness
- sale, techniques
- valuation
- venture capital investor experience
- venture capitalist evaluation
- Deal screening
- Decision-making power
- Diversification, approach
- Dot-com bubble
- Downside risks
- Due diligence
- absence
- efforts
- examination
- follow-up
- importance
- investment, return
- limited due diligence, awareness
- meeting
- time, shortness
- process
- questioning, focus
- rigor
- Dytel Corporation, startup
- Early-stage company, board of directors population
- Early-stage entrepreneur, venture funding process problem
- Early-stage financings, completion
- Early-stage focus
- Early-stage investment
- Early-stage ventures
- capital
- capitalist perspective
- expense
- teams, composition
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), requirement
- Emperor of all Maladies, The (Mukherjee)
- Enhance compound, combination
- Entity, versatility (factors)
- Entrepreneur
- boldness/daring
- cultivation
- drive, denominator
- ecosystem, emergence
- essence
- exit
- experience, importance
- facility/plant tour
- failures
- future
- imbalance, perception
- impact
- independence/resourcefulness
- interview
- investment pricing advice
- maturity, importance
- nature/nurture, contrast
- online firm invitation
- optimism
- option
- passion
- positive difference, opportunity
- preference
- private company status
- reality, recognition
- success
- support
- timing, importance
- trouble
- venture capitalist, relationship
- venture capital recommendation
- venture investor, relationship
- Entrepreneurship, internal drive/external impact
- Environment, impact
- Equity crowdfunders, impact
- Evans, Christopher
- Executive search consultants
- Executive search firm, usage
- Exit
- components
- no-exit exit option
- options
- range
- success
- Expansion stage
- venture capitalist perspective
- Expansion stage (venture capital)
- Experience (entrepreneur), importance
- Expert middlemen, usage
- Facebook
- second wave
- unicorn valuation
- Facility tour
- Fear of competition rejection
- Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
- mentality
- motivation, absence
- results
- Fee orientation
- Financial crisis (2008)
- Financial structure, competitiveness
- Financing
- rounds, dollar magnitude (impact)
- FindTheCompany, com, database
- First wave
- Fuller, Buckminster
- FundersClub
- Funder's Club
- Fundraisers, approaches
- Funds, sources
- Future discounted cash flow, projection
- Gain, potential
- Galvin, Christopher
- Gates, Bill
- GEICO, investment
- General Electric (GE)
- Berkshire Hathaway investment
- investment, avoidance
- Genetic code, ordering/functioning
- Genome, potential
- Geographic proximity, impact
- Gladwin, Chris
- Going public
- investment banker drive
- risks
- rumor/ruin vulnerability
- Golder, Stan
- Gold, prospecting
- Google
- Groupon offer
- growth
- initial public offering
- second wave
- unicorn valuation
- Go-to-market strategy
- Governance, focus
- Groupon
- lessons
- post-IPO problems
- Growth-driven organizational changes, impact
- Growth potential
- business domain, knowledge
- Hard assets
- Hard liabilities
- Harvard Business School
- Hedge Fund Research, Inc.
- Hedge funds, attractiveness (absence)
- Helix
- Hindenburg (airship)
- Holmes, Elizabeth
- downfall
- Horizons, plan
- Human brain, function
- Human needs, hierarchy
- Human values, promotion
- IBM, Cleversafe acquisition
- Icahn, Carl
- Illinois Superconductor (ISCO International)
- Immunology, potential
- Inco
- support
- Inflation, venture capital hedge
- Information flow, usage
- Information technology, advances
- Inherent risk
- Initial public offering (IPO)
- advance
- attempt, abandonment
- consideration
- emphasis
- going public
- indication
- irrational exuberance
- prices, impact
- public companies
- success
- Innovation
- increase
- innovation-driven wealth
- market-changing innovation
- waves
- Intel, development
- Intensity Therapeutics
- Interest rates, impact
- Internal drive
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- annual gross IRR, performance
- percentage level
- realized IRR performance data
- representation
- Internet
- bubble
- creation/development
- potential
- Third Wave
- Internet of Everything
- Internet of Things
- Intrinsic value
- Intuition
- Investment
- administration tasks
- bankers
- going public
- salesperson role
- venture capitalists, contrast
- banking firms, going public
- deal stages, VC perspective
- dollars, impact
- duration/multiplet
- entrepreneur pricing advice
- exit
- level
- location
- long-term investment
- low-cost money source
- low-to-fair prices, purchase
- non-monetary costs, consideration
- opportunities
- overpayment, avoidance
- price, importance/trickiness
- requirement
- restrictions
- returns
- risk
- selection
- success
- finding
- target company, leadership
- understanding
- venture capitalist evaluation
- Investors
- advice
- experience, accumulation
- holdings, liquidation
- lead investor
- roles
- selection
- locating
- minority investor, impact
- money, board of director guardianship
- returns, delivery
- Irrational exuberance
- JOBS Act
- passage
- Title III, provisions (impact)
- Jobs, Steve
- Jupiter Networks
- Keytruda (Merck)
- Kimsey, Jim
- Kleiner Perkins
- Kraft Heinz, investment
- Later stage (venture capitalist perspective)
- rounds
- Late stage (venture capital)
- Lawyers
- deal-doing lawyer, usage
- deal process
- deal, speed (importance)
- firms, billing
- locating
- realities
- types, consideration
- Leadership
- experience
- vigilance
- Lead investor
- attorney, role
- role
- selection
- Legal boilerplate
- Legal consistency, importance
- Legal counsel, finding
- Legal orientation, degrees (differences)
- Limited due diligence, awareness
- LinkedIn, usage
- Liquidation, risk
- Liquidity
- Litigation, absence
- Long-term gain, maximization
- Long-term investment
- Low-cost money source, investment readiness
- Lower cost funds, sources
- Lyles, Pat
- Machine learning, expertise
- Machine vision
- startups, impact
- virtual reality
- Management
- approval, risk
- changes, making
- complications/challenges
- crisis management, requirement
- emasculation
- team
- impact
- strength, importance
- Market
- capitalization
- changes, innovation
- evolution
- market-changing innovation
- research
- scare (2008)
- uniqueness
- Matter, emergence
- Maturity (entrepreneur), importance
- Median PE buyout fund, performance
- Mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) scene
- Mergers, complementary business
- Merrill Piccard
- Micro Millennium, The (Evans)
- Microsoft
- unicorn valuation
- Minority investor, impact
- Mistakes, minimization
- Money
- contacts
- expense
- impact
- making
- raising
- process, facilitation
- search
- targeting, VC industry focus basis
- seduction
- targeting
- MoneyTree Report (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
- Montgomery Medical Ventures
- Moore, Gordon
- Moore's Law, change
- Morgan Stanley, books (markdown)
- Morganstein, Sanford
- interview
- investor backing
- takeover concerns
- Morris, John
- Motivation, risk (relationship)
- Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Munger, Charlie
- Mutual fund-type, adoption
- Nanophase Technologies Corporation
- creation
- founding
- Nanotechnology
- domain
- NASDAQ, decline
- National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
- National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
- yearbook, stage definitions
- Nature, nurture (contrast)
- Navteq, change
- Near-term stock market, impact
- Nemesis
- Net revenue
- Netscape, creation
- New Enterprise Associates
- News, control
- New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) composite trading, shares (change)
- No-called-strike game
- No-exit exit option
- Nokia, sale
- Non-accredited individual investors, venture capital investment
- Non-monetary costs, consideration
- Norfolk Southern, investment
- Northfield Laboratories
- Offspring, designing/building
- Oil, drilling
- Online equity crowdfunders
- Online venture capital (VC)
- investment
- platforms
- portals, emergence
- portals
- Our Crowd (OurCrowd)
- Overpayment, avoidance
- Ownership dilution, protection
- Palantir, resource
- Passive index-type
- PayPal
- initiation
- subscription
- PD-1 inhibitors
- Peer review, importance
- Pension funds
- People-building
- Photo settings/attire, information
- PitchBook
- PolyHeme, usage
- Pooled account, investment
- Portfolio companies
- involvement
- Positive cash flow
- Post-seed stage (venture capital)
- Power, seduction
- Predictive analytics
- expertise
- potential
- Prices, company control
- Private company
- status
- valuation
- Private equity
- buyout funds, attractiveness (absence)
- forms
- Private markets
- Private partnership
- Processing power, improvement
- Processing speed, impact
- Prodigy, first wave
- Product
- development
- marketplace
- uniqueness
- Production capacity, increase
- Public company
- emergence
- management
- status
- Public markets, betting
- Public offering, rigors
- Quantum Computer
- Rainmaker attorney, impact
- Real estate investment
- Realized IRR performance data
- Returns
- multiple, annualized return (relationship)
- Revenue, achievement
- Revolutionary investments, understanding
- Reward
- endeavor
- potential
- profile
- risk/reward tradeoff
- stress dilemma
- Right-brain processing
- Risk
- degrees, differences
- endeavor
- investment risk
- management
- issues, focus
- motivation, relationship
- profile
- risk/reward tradeoff
- stress dilemma
- vulnerability
- River, Charles
- Robotics
- consciousness
- machines, impact
- potential
- virtual reality, usage
- Rock, Arthur
- Rosenstein, Barry
- Sales
- complementary business
- cycle, length
- Schroeder, Alice
- Sears, product/service sale
- Second wave
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), specialists
- Seed-capital investors, motivation
- Seed-capital stage
- SeedInvest
- Seed investor
- Seed stage
- venture capital
- venture capitalist perspective
- Sensation, impact
- Share pricing, maximization
- Short-term markets, changes
- Sidecar fund
- Silicon Valley, venture capital firms
- Snicker test
- Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Schroeder)
- Soft liabilities
- Software
- efficiency, impact
- modification speed, impact
- packages
- Software.net
- Species, knowledge
- Springsteen, Bruce
- Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P500), long-term returns
- Startups
- Cambrian explosion
- fragility
- Stemberg, Tom
- Stock market, venture capital (correlation)
- Suppliers, lower cost funds (sources)
- Takeover, approach
- Talent, search
- Team member maturity, perspective
- Technological infrastructure, enrichment
- Technological innovations
- Technology advancement
- Theranos
- downfall
- postmortem analysis
- Walgreen lawsuit
- Thiel, Peter
- investment strategy
- Third Wave
- Third Wave, The (Case)
- Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Research Index
- Time Warner, AOL merger
- Title III. See JOBS Act
- Trump, Donald
- administration, policies (impact)
- Trust, building
- Tullman, Howard
- Twitter, second wave
- Uber
- cash flow generation
- investment
- valuation
- EBITDA requirement
- withdrawal (China)
- Ultra-small, understanding/use
- Unicorns
- early-stage investment, belief
- exit, difficulty
- investors
- concerns
- returns, delivery
- logic, application
- mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) scene
- no-exit exit option
- seduction, avoidance
- valuations
- decrease
- excess
- problems
- Union Bank
- Union Pacific, investment
- United States, Midwest (percentage impact)f
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- Upside opportunities
- U.S. Treasury bills, interest rates
- VCapital
- focus
- investment
- minimum individual investment requirement
- resurrection
- team, executives (impact)
- Venture capital (VC)
- appeal
- community, evolution
- conservative investor usage
- contacts/middlemen, identification
- counsel, development
- deal, speed (importance)
- documents, impact
- early stage (post-seed stage)
- expansion stage
- fairs
- financing
- firm
- focus
- selection
- focus
- future
- gains
- group, management change
- hedges
- historical returns
- industry, concerns
- institutional usage
- investors, success
- late stage
- lawyer, knowledge
- management
- money, expense
- objective
- online equity crowdfunders
- online VC portals
- opportunity, increase
- physical, usage
- process, knowledge
- raising
- experience, difficulty
- process
- returns
- Buffett returns, contrast
- risk/reward
- tradeofff
- seed stage
- stock/bond markets, correlation
- success
- targeting
- team, exit
- time-intensive business
- treatment (importance), respect/sincerity (usage)
- VC-backed issues, liquidation
- VC-funded ventures, requirement
- venture capital-backed company
- IPO
- vulnerability
- visualization
- Venture Capital Division (Allstate)
- Venture capital (VC) firm
- candidates, vetting
- landscape, survey
- location process
- stage focus
- Venture capital (VC) firm selection
- geographic focus
- industry focus
- resources
- venture stage focus
- Venture capital (VC) investment
- Buffett's real investment rules, contrast
- business valuation basics, application
- decision
- diversification
- emotional reasons
- long-term nature
- non-accredited individual investors, involvement
- online platforms
- opportunities
- principles, similarity
- reason
- reward
- risk
- riskiness
- success, formula
- Venture capital (VC) investors
- exit, provision
- locating
- sources/dollars
- time, importance
- Venture capitalist (VC)
- advice
- ambiguity
- appeal, process
- appetite
- approach
- business, learning
- contact
- making
- control position
- deal stages
- difference
- early stage perspective
- effectiveness
- entrepreneur
- preference
- relationship
- expansion stage perspective
- experience, impact
- firms, money targeting
- geographic location
- impact
- industry focus, money search
- introduction, expert middlemen (usage)
- intuitive/analytical skills
- investment
- bankers, contrast
- price
- later stage
- list, narrowing
- marriage counselor, analogy
- professional approach
- public offering
- pursuit, three-step method
- real value creation
- screening, process
- seed stage
- skepticism
- strategic orientation
- workload, change
- Venture geography
- Venture growth/maturation
- Venture investor, entrepreneur (relationship)
- Ventures
- board of directors, guardianship role
- evolution, talent search
- failure
- funding process, problems
- investing
- money, level (elevation)
- screening stage, passage
- Venture screening, handling
- Verizon, acquisition
- Virtual reality (VR)
- potential
- simulation
- Visa International
- CyberSource sale
- Volatile public markets, betting
- Von Meister, Bill
- lessons
- Walgreens, lawsuit
- WalkerSands Communications
- Washington Post investment (avoidance)
- Working capital, provision
- Wrigley
- investment
- avoidance
- shares, purchase
- Yale University, endowment
- Zero to One (Thiel)
- Zuckerberg, Mark
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