4 posts tagged “venture capital”
Currently reading Ronald Cohen´s new book "The Second Bounce of the Ball". Ronald is the founder of venture-capital and private-equity big shot Apax Partners (who has about $20 billion under management). Great read so far, gives me a boost of motivation in the process of fixing our market entry strategy. Not only an absolute must-read for anyone interested in entrepreneurship and VC/PE but also for people trying to figure out how to turn risk into opportunity as the subline of the title says. Thanks to my dad for the gift.
Just found this great video called "Funding Your Dream" on Guy´s blog. He´s not in it this time but his partner at Garage who moderates this great panel discussion between VC`s and Angels about how entrepreneurs should get prepared to fundraising. It´s a little long but Veotag (the video hoster) let´s you jump from question to question which is a great new way of tagging videos. Check it out, it´s really interesting.
While I am at this, it would be a great idea if someone over here in Germany could do a similar panel with german VC´s and post it. I am thinking of Lukasz over at Gründerszene, who has in the past managed to meet a bunch of interesting people, either CEO´s of start-ups or VC´s.
Or Robert Basic, who seems to be a big Guy fan and was thinking about how to get him over to Germany in order to speak.
The question is, if the german way of VCising is similar to the US one.
I almost swallowed this book during my vacation. Being a former chief-evangelist for Apple and now the CEO of VC firm Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki really is a great and funny guy. In his book he delivers insights on how to start a company, his writing is funny, smart, easy to understand and straight to the point. It has helped us a lot during the process of planning our company and getting ready to pitch PE investors and VC´s, let´s hope his thoughts have become standard even in Europe - it´d make perfect sense.
Besides being an author, Guy also speaks on a lot of tech-conferences and it´s a delight to see him speak. His funny and laid-back style really is refreshing. You can find a good speech basing on his book here where he speaks in front of a bunch of entrepreneurs. To see him moderate a panel discussion with CEO´s of some recent tech-start-ups, click here.
Oh and grab his book if you´re starting something:
