Essentials of Venture Capital

What is Venture Capital? How Venture Capital Works. Performance Expectations. Venture Capital in Crisis. Careers and Organization. Launching a Career. Nurturing Your Career as a Venture Capitalist. Firm Structure and Organization. Planning for the Future. Fundraising. Fundraising is a Venture Capitalist's Number One Priority. What Limited Partners Want. Working with Limited Partners. Why Invest in Funds That Lose Money? First Time Funds. Bigger Funds. The Future of Fundraising. Investing Basics. What Makes a Good Deal? Macroeconomics of Investing. Investment Process. Stock Classifications. Typical Preferred Stock Clauses. Stock During Different Stages of Development. Syndication. Valuation. Finding Investments. Gathering Opportunities. Hunting for Investments. Growing Your Own Investments. Alternative Methods. Missed Opportunities. Getting the Money Back. Gains from Investment. Going Public. Getting Acquired. The IPO Crisis. Solving the IPO Problem. Are Fewer IPOs a Bad Thing? New Strategies and Adaptations for Liquidity. Booms, Bubbles & Busts. Riding the Waves. Boom Beginnings. Bubbles. Busts. Going Global. Strategies for Foreign Investing. Venture Capital Outside the United States. Israel. China. India. Russia. Europe. Rest of the World.