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. ...
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.
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.
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.
We are running the Venture Deals Online Course again. Registration is now open and it runs from March 8, 2020 – May 1, 2020. It’s produced by Techstars and Kauffman Fellows . We’ve run the course six times now and have had over 25,000 people take it. It’s free, although it’s recommended that you have a copy of our book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist . The 4th Edition is out with plenty of new and improved stuff. ...
Techstars and Kauffman Fellows are once again running the Venture Deals online course that Jason Mendelson and I put together several years ago. https://youtu.be/RWUx5qm-xrg If you’re an entrepreneur who wants to raise capital and grow your business, this online course teaches you the basics you need to know for working with VCs. And, if you are starting off as a VC or a lawyer for venture capital deals and you want a refresher on the core issues in a term sheet, this online course is for you. ...
Kauffman Fellows and Techstars are once again running the Venture Deals online course . https://youtu.be/RWUx5qm-xrg This time it runs from May 6th to June 26th. We’ve now had over 10,000 people take the online course and have been delighted to meet or email with a bunch of them over the past few years. If you want to learn how to be smarter than your lawyer and your venture capitalist, sign up for Venture Deals now . Yup – it’s free!
Kauffman Fellows and Techstars are running another cycle of the Venture Deals course with me and Jason Mendelson. Signups close tomorrow as the course runs from 9/24/17 – 11/13/17. The course is free to everyone. The seven-week course, which is about five hours of work each week, has the following agenda. Week 1 – Introduction of key players/Form or join a team Week 2 – Fundraising/Finding the Right VC ...
In September, I joined the board of Kauffman Fellows . If you aren’t familiar with the Kauffman Fellows Program, it recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. I was around at the beginning, spending a day a month in Kansas City with the Kauffman Foundation as an entrepreneur-in-residence when the program was originally created by a team at the Kauffman Foundation to identify, develop, and network the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry using a two-year apprenticeship program. In 2003, it was spun out of the Kauffman Foundation into a separate non-profit but, at the 20th reunion in Kansas City, the Kauffman Foundation made a new gift to the Kauffman Fellows Program to accelerate the midwestern venture capital ecosystem . ...
I attended the 20th Reunion of the Kauffman Fellows on Monday and Tuesday. I’ve recently joined the board of directors and enjoyed spending two days in Kansas City immersed in things with the Kauffman Fellows, a bunch of friends, and a number of LPs and GPs that came to the event. As part of it, I gave a talk and did Q&A with Lesa Mitchell (now the Managing Director of Techstars Kansas City). We covered a lot of ground around startup communities, investing, government, multi-turn games, and other things I can’t remember anymore. Buried in the middle is a story of my experience with Startup Weekend Tehran and a long rant on transcending geographic borders. ...