What is Venture Capital?
Venture capital has enabled the United States to support its entrepreneurial talent and appetite by turning ideas and basic science into products and services that are the envy of the world. Venture capital funds and builds companies from the simplest form – perhaps just the entrepreneur and an idea expressed as a business plan – to freestanding, mature organizations.
Source: National Venture Capital Association

Venture Leasing: The Other Venture Capital
"Venture leasing" is a creative vehicle that allows start-up companies to finance certain infrastructure and equipment needs. The practice has financial advantages, but it also carries some risks. This article explains what venture leasing is and how it works.
Source: Jay Hollander, GigaLaw.com

Fixing Venture Capital
Many software companies these days are built using some form of venture capital. But the VC industry has been hurting lately. A lot of investments in dotcoms turned out to be spectacular flameouts. As a result, VCs are becoming ever more selective about where to put their money.
Source: Joel Spolsky

Growth Company Guide 2000
The Growth Company Guide 2000 - Investors, Deal Structures, and Legal Strategies is the latest, expanded and updated edition of a unique resource that has been used for more than a decade by entrepreneurs and private company investors to help them grow successful companies and understand the business fundraising process.
Source: Clinton Richardson

Raising Venture Capital: Tips for the Medical Start-up
Savvy entrepreneurs need to do a lot of homework and planning before seeking funds from venture capitalists eager to invest in medical start-up companies.
Source: Fred Dotzler, Managing Director, De Novo Ventures

Is the Venture Capital Market in India Getting Overheated?
The Venture Capital market in India seems to be getting as hot as the country’s famous summers. However, this potential over-exuberance may lead to some stormy days ahead, based on sobering esearch compiled by global research and analytics services firm, Evalueserve.
Source: Dr. Alok Aggarwal, Chairman, Evalueserve Inc.

The Alternative to an Initial Public Offering
For over a year, the market for initial public offerings (IPO) for promising private companies has been slow. In 2007, there were just 234 IPOs, down from a decade high of 486 in 1999. As a result, private companies and their investors (including venture capital and private equity backed companies) have been left without a crucial exit strategy.
Source: Kevin A. Pollack, Esq., Managing Director, Paragon Capital LP

The Entrepreneur's Guide To Raising Venture Capital
My current objective is to create the entrepreneur's manual for raising venture capital. The posts below are parts of this manual, organized in the chronological order of the fundraising process.
Source: Mark Peter Davis, Venture Capitalist

How Venture Capital Works
SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank and financial partner to technology companies and venture capitalists worldwide, released a video entitled, "How Venture Capital Works," - a panel discussion about the dynamics of the venture capital process, including how money flows and emerging companies are developed.
Source: SVB Financial Group