Registration for the Spring 2026 Venture Deals course is open. The course kicks off on March 2nd and, as always, is free. Since we revamped the course in 2022, over 32,000 people have enrolled. This version includes entirely new video content and two sections we added that I think are important — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Venture Capital, and Mental Wellness in Entrepreneurship. ...
I did a talk with a private community of 100 GPs and investors in venture capital called Aces last week. It’s an off-the-record, confidential group organized by a few people, including Max Beaumont , who said I could mention him in this post. Max sent me the following summary. I asked him if I could post it, and he said yes. Thank you again for taking the time to join us yesterday, and for staying well past the scheduled end.. I could tell how meaningful the conversation was for those who stayed.. ...
The Venture Deals course is free and starts on June 20, 2023 . This is the fourth time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . If interested, sign up now . I hope to see you in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.
There have been many different language translations of Venture Deals since it was first published in 2012. The first German translation of Venture Deals 4e is out , and Florian Kreis did an amazing job. Florian aimed to modify the book as little as possible, even if the relevant passages did not correspond 100% to German best practices but were still feasible to implement. He believes the structures originally developed in the U.S. have become the international standard and are a great role model for Germany. ...
The course is free and starts on March 21, 2023. This is the third time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . If interested, sign up now . I hope to see you there in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.
There have been many different approaches to ranking VC Firms over the years I’ve been an entrepreneur and a VC. Each approach I’ve seen has issues. Most are easily gamed or have statistical bias issues. I got the following note from Roy Bahat at Bloomberg Beta a while ago about a new approach called Founder’s Choice . We and a few other firms sponsored a “founders choice” version of the Midas List, with a legit (IMHO) rating methodology, built by two Penn students. No vitriol possible (unlike The Funded, etc.). We’ve wanted this to exist for a long time — NPS of us as a firm is too forgiving a metric, everyone scores well. ...
Registration for the Venture Deals Fall 2022 course is open . The course is free and starts on September 20, 2022. This is the second time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . If interested, sign up now . I hope to see you there in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the course.
Connie Loizos is one of the long-time tech industry writers who I respect. I don’t respond to many interview requests these days, but I’ll always talk to her. She has a good article today in TechCrunch titled Embrace the down round (it’s going to be okay, maybe) . I like the quote she pulled out of me in our conversation. [Brad Feld] says his “strong belief” that “just doing a clean resetting — at whatever the valuation so that everybody is aligned and dealing with reality — is much, much better for a company.” ...
Like many people, I’m currently deep in SPACland. I’ve been writing privately about it a lot but have now crossed over into a zone where I feel like writing more publicly about it. When Jason and I wrote the first edition Venture Deals in 2011, we built off a series of 30+ blog posts we wrote in 2005 about Term Sheets . It’s fun to explore them for historical reference since Jack Bauer plays a major part in the posts. ...
We are running the Venture Deals Online Course from March 7, 2021 – April 30, 2021. We’ve moved the Venture Deals Community from Slack to Mighty Networks where we have much more functionality and flexibility. Once again, we’ll do a weekly AMA with a variety of people participating. For now, registration is open. Please sign up if you want to take the Spring 2021 Venture Deals Online Course .