I found a nice collection of slides that attempt to define the VC industry, without getting in too deep. I hope you can learn something from it.
1) Venture Capital for a 5th Grader, by Mark Davis, DFJ Gotham Ventures, New York:
2) Joe Meved, a digital media VC explains VC to a Project Finance Class at Harvard:
3) Introduction to Venture Capital, Will Price, Hummer Winbald Venture Partners, Stanford University
4) Understanding Venture Capital, Simon Olson, FIR Capital
5) Understanding Venture Capital Term Sheets, Cass Business School, Shikhir Singh
Understanding Venture Capital Term Sheets
6) Venture Capital 101, Venture Impact – The economic importance of Venture Capital Backed companies to the US economy
7) Start up Viagra – How to Pitch a VC, Dave McClure,
8) Guy Kawasaki on Venture Capital- Part 1
He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy.
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