At AsktheVC, we’ve decided to periodically have guest bloggers take a shot at some of the questions we’ve received. Today’s guest post is by Will Price from Hummer Winblad. Will writes a popular blog which we enjoy. Hopefully you will also. Question: As the alternative asset classes continue to converge, there has been growing evidence […]
Josh Kopelman has today’s Great VC Post up titled The Penny Gap. “The truth is, scaling from $5 to $50 million is not the toughest part of a new venture – it’s getting your users to pay you anything at all. The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free […]
We are often asked “how does Venture Capital work?” Will Price from Hummer Winblad recently gave a presentation to a class at Stanford (Entrepreneurial Engineer) which is an excellent overview of how venture capital works.
Fred Wilson has today’s Great VC Blog post up with The Loser’s Curse. Rational or not, some VCs won’t go back into the same swamp after an alligator has taken a chunk out of a body part.
Question: How do I come up with projections of a web service that is not being done yet? I know make it up. Actually, please don’t just make it up. That’s a waste of your time. In answering this question, I’m going to assume that you haven’t built your new web service yet and you don’t […]
Question: I am currently shopping VCs, or should I say I am letting them shop me. We have a service that will launch Q1 of 2007 and have had numerous discussions with large and small websites that want to use the service. Is it beneficial to get Letters of Intent from these people to bring […]
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