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| As an entrepreneur, it's helpful to understand the pressures on your investor. In other words, in order to understand how the VC might behave, it's important to ask: how does the venture capitalist succeed?
Following is a walkthrough of a fictitious venture capital firm- SuperSeed Investments.
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Raising money - smart talk of big returns |
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Getting started: setting up an investment fund |
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Who has the control? |
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How much $$ do the VCs make? Let's negotiate. |
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Management Fees: paying the power bills |
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The Big Money: JACKPOT! |
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How much is that, anyway? |
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Variability of Fees - can the VCs get even more? |
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General Partners - share and share alike? |
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High Returns: promises, promises |
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What's SuperSeed's target number? |
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Giving back the Money: Deadlines |
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Wait until the last minute? |
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Managing the Risk, Earning the Return |
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Diversify the deals? |
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Choosy, choosy? |
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Not either or…. |
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Some of the implications for SuperSeed |
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The challenge - how to respond? |
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Classroom discussion ideas |
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