Small and Large Funds

Lecture Description

Roizen talks about performance and limited partners in venture capital. Smaller funds on the most part are suffering. A large funds success depends on what a startup's past performance has been.

Course Index

1. Introduction: Mobius Venture Capital
2. Investing Climate in 2002
3. Why Be an Entrepreneur Now?
4. Working with Venture Capitalists
5. What Has Changed in Today's Investment Culture?
6. An Attractive Team Has Youth AND Grey Hair
7. Bootstrapping: Still a Great Way to Raise Money
8. The Advantages of Profit
9. Raising Venture Capital Today: Barbell Syndrome
10. A Common Mistake: Treating VC money as Your Own
11. Pay Back Time
12. VC's Are Open For Business
13. VC Startup Relationship
14. Small and Large Funds
15. Watching How People Handled the Downturn
16. What Do the LP's Believe?
17. Timing is Everything
18. Why Take Venture Capital?
19. Venture Capital vs. Corporate Funding
20. The M&A Market
21. Picking vs. Running
22. Successful Teams and Ventures
23. The Best Money: Customer Money
24. What Numbers Do VC's Look At?
25. Tips For a Good Pitch