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. ...
Registration for the Venture Deals Summer 2025 online, self-guided, free course by Techstars and Kauffman Fellows starts today. It’s based on the book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist . When Jason Mendelson and I wrote the first edition, one of our goals was to eliminate the massive information asymmetry between entrepreneurs and investors. Venture Deals is now in its 4th edition and has continued to be a popular and helpful book. ...
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.
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 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 .
We are running the Venture Deals Online Course from September 13, 2020 – November 6, 2020. Our summer session had over 10,000 registrants and over 2,000 people completing the course. We got a lot of feedback about things to improve, several of which we are introducing into the Fall session. Once again, we’ll do a weekly AMA with a variety of people participating. We are also creating a new Venture Deals online community available to all past and current participants of the course. We’ll provide the link for the online community on day one (we’ll be using Mighty Networks, which I’ve loved for my virtual Startup Community.) ...
We are running the Venture Deals Online Course again this summer. But before I get to that, I want to highlight a blog post from a Black colleague. I’m getting, and reading, many of these each day. For the foreseable future, I’ll highlight and amplify one at the beginning of each post I do, in case you are interested. Today’s post is from Ruben Porras , who is a Techstars alum (Director of Operations at CreatorBox.) He wrote Black Lives Matter. At Work. In Life. ...
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. ...