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Six tips for smooth acquisitions

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | No Comments »

In my last post I discussed exits and ended by stating we tell our companies: “build the company on the assumption it will go public but recognize that a strategic ... Read more..

Exits

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 1 Comment »

Fred Wilson recently wrote a series of posts detailing the economics of a Venture Capital Fund (Economics, Gross and Net Returns, When One Deal Returns The Fund, Allocating Follow-On Capital). ... Read more..

Venture Funding

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | No Comments »

In a previous post I discussed why most businesses we see should probably be bootstrapped rather than venture funded. I promised to discuss a bit more about venture backed business ... Read more..

“I’m a marketing major” - what school granted this degree?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Best Practices | 1 Comment »

I write a "gadget" column for a newspaper and a magazine in Waterloo region (www.gadgetcolumn.ca). Like most product reviewers I will contact marketing departments to ask for product information and ... Read more..

Bootstrapping

Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Venture Capital | 2 Comments »

One of the biggest issues we have to deal with as venture capitalists is saying "no" to a lot of people. At Tech Capital Partners we fund about 1% of ... Read more..