Venture Capital: A Practice Guidebook for Capital-Seeking Business, Owners, Managers and Advisors is a complete book covering the basics of venture capital funding, including a overview of venture ...

We are concerned in the venture capital community by the bill known as the "Tax Extenders Bill", which was passed in the House of Representatives last week. The provision on changing the tax treatment ...

I've spent a reasonable amount of time thinking, over the Christmas break, of what types of startup companies succeed, what types raise funding, what types are capital intensive. It's also been ...

Joe Platnick, a member of the Pasadena Angels, recently posted his list of some criteria for selecting an investor at the group's blog, Ask The Angels, and he gave us permission to repost it here.

socalTECH.com is the premier source of information on Southern California venture deals, companies, and venture capitalists, news, and more, and also gives you access to our job postings, news, and ...

The halcyon days of start-up companies and the venture community attraction to them hit a hard stop as the COVID-19 lock down spread across the U.S. earlier this year. As the first half of 2020 nears ...

“You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” – Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” A week before Groupon’s initial public ...

The price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock that the venture capital investor is willing to pay is equal to the pre-money valuation of the company divided by the total number of shares ...

"With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good." Really? I would think that with a name like Smucker's it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech. If "Smucker's" ...

Marc Averitt, a venture capitalist at Orange County-based Okapi Venture Capital, and a frequent blogger about the business of venture capital and entrepeneurship. This is a slightly edited and ...

For today's Insights & Opinions section, we're sharing a brief piece that Jeff Cohn, a well known consultant to angel and venture investors in town, and is a venture consultant to MHS Capital--and who ...