VC & Startup Founders saga continues

You might have already caught these on TechCrunch (in separate back to back articles). I just thought of sharing both the decks together for those who missed it. The first of these decks is titled VC Non Admissions. The deck was adapted from a thread on ExpertCEO contributed by a range of CEOs and VCs about ...

Startup Viagra: How to Give a VCs a Hard-On

This is possibly the most sensational presentation you would have seen on startup funding and investor pitching. Delivered by Dave McClure (bio here) at the first PresentationCamp organised at the SlideShare office in San Francisco yesterday, this presentation is a freaky (though somewhat racy) take on the courtship between startups and VCs. DO NOT MISS THIS... ...

Can you explain venture capital to a 5th grader?

Check out this slide deck. Its an attempt by a VC at DFJ Gotham Ventures to explain venture capital to a 5th grader. Its extremely unlikely that any 5th grader reads this blog. So what am I embedding it here? Well, this deck can actually be useful to lots of folks who are well past ...

Time for a comic break… VC humor - Enjoy!

First of all- this is for humor's sake... no offence meant to anyone...specially to the investor folks Check out this humorous website VCwear.com. It is meant to poke a joke at the venture capital industry (specifically at some of the stereotypical situations or instances that one is likely to encounter while dealing with them). The site is ...

To VC or Not to VC - That is the question???

This is a guest post by Ramneek Gupta of Battery Ventures, a Silicon Valley based top tier VC firm that is now active in the Indian space as well. I bumped into Ramneek recently and asked if he would be willing to share his perspective about VCs & startups, for the readers of this blog. He ...