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Cooley Godward seeing a shift towards a lower proportion of early stage...

Cooley is one of the largest and most respected law firms in Silicon Valley. It recently released its Private Company Financings Report for Q1 2008, based on the 66 completed deals that the firm worked...

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What entrepreneurs need to know about Founders' Stock

This is a guest post by John Bautista. John is a partner in Orrick‘s Emerging Companies Group in Silicon Valley. John specializes in representing early stage companies....

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What impact will the credit crunch have on venture financing for startups?

An entrepreneur asked me recently if I was concerned about the impact the credit crunch will have on venture financing for startups. I responded: For high quality companies, the short answer is no. The...

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How bad is it for startups seeking financing?

It is difficult for startup companies to raise venture capital at the best of times. A venture capitalist might get emailed 5-10 pitches from startups each day. Over the course of a year that adds up...

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Almost as many down rounds as up rounds in December 2008

Fenwick and West analyzed 128 venture financings completed in q4 2008 for companies headquartered in the bay area and found that there has been a significant increase in the proportion of down rounds,...

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Notes from VC panel at Gamesbeat

Jussi Laakkonen live blogged the panel and has his mindmap here.…

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What is the difference between a good product and a good company?

Insightful tweet from Charles Hudson: Good products create value. Good biz models capture value. Good companies have both If a company has a good product but does not have a good business model it is...

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The Lightspeed Summer Fellowship Program Explained

There’s been some great discussions recently about the Lightspeed Summer Program (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380567) and at several of the sessions over the weekend at the Stanford E-Boot...

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The Enterprise Trifecta: Data, Security, and Mobility.

The enterprise software stack is undergoing once in a generation refresh largely driven by virtualization, data explosion, infrastructure commoditization, socialization, unlimited connectivity, and...

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Applications for Our 2013 Summer Fellowship Program Now Open

Lightspeed is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Summer Fellowship Program. The program is designed to be a unique opportunity for student led teams to spend the summer...

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