Category Archives: venture capital

Jason Mendelson CUNVC Crash Course – “How to Build a Company” (includes slides)

By admin | Published: January 14, 2010
The following is a guest post by Mark Wiranowski, CU law student and member of the CUNVC executive committee: Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Foundry Group, a Boulder venture capital firm, kicked off the New Venture Challenge Crash Course series to a packed house last night.  His wealth of experience – software engineer, then [...]
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Jason Mendelson’s CUNVC Crash Course Video – How to Build a Company

By admin | Published: January 14, 2010
Slides and write-up to follow, but here is the video for anyone who missed it.  Thanks to Colorado Tech TV for the awesome video and the speedy upload! (Note: be patient, it may take a minute to load all six parts.)
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Lessons From Incubator 2.0 from Dave McClure

By admin | Published: October 18, 2009
Dave McClure shared this presentation with some lessons about start-ups incubators.  The presentation is slides only, but worth a look.  Some good information about the development cycle and the metrics that are important to young companies (keep clicking past the intro slides).  The contextual blog post can be found here. Incubator 2.0: A Silicon Valley Success [...]
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Kleiner’s Beth Seidenberg: Five Metrics for Venture Success

By admin | Published: October 9, 2009
Beth Seidenberg of  Kleiner Perkins gives a five minute intro about what she and the VCs at Kleiner see as important factors when evaluating the business.  The entire podcast is also available. Description: “How do investors gauge whether a company is one from a pool of thousands worth their resources? KPCB partner Beth Seidenberg shares her [...]
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