Venture Capital Bootcamp 2009

This year during internet week in New York there was a “Venture Capital Bootcamp” event. Venture capitalists from DFJ Gotham Ventures and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati came to Columbia University and participated.

It was a great event, very informative and the presenters took an interesting approach to telling everyone about how VCs think and work.

Information on the presenters at the Bootcamp:
Venture Capital Bootcamp 2009 - Program Materials

Adam Dinow

Ross Goldstein

Venture Capital Bootcamp 2009 - Daniel Schultz

Venture Capital Bootcamp 2009 - Thatcher Bell

Check out the video of the whole talk below! The presenters go overview of the VC industry, the venture capital fundraising process, company formation types (LLC, corporations, etc.), term sheets, and what to do after investment. There’s also a discussion about whether VC funding is right for you and your business as well.

The video runs just over three hours and you can listen to the audio while working.

The slides from the event:

The Tick

The Tick is one of the great super hero’s of our time…

The Tick

The 9 episodes of the live action TV series can be found here.

Trent Reznor Interview

An interview with Trent Reznor and his outlook on the music industry:

Wish List

Thing I would to get at some point… sort of a wish list–

TechCrunch Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose

A great video on the Diggs co-founder Kevin Rose, a look into a successful startup company:

Learning from StackOverflow.com

A website that I use all of the time for technical information is StackOverflow.com, here is a video on what that website does and how they can help out technically:

Firefox Plugins

Below are the Firefox plugins I generally use and recommend to people:

Health Insurance

Here is some great information provided by CNCB on health insurance from the show On the Money.

  • 48 million Americans under the age of 65 lack health insurance.
  • 1/3 of Americans spend part of year 2007 without health insurance.
  • The last decade for premium employer sponsored health insurance rose 4x times as fast as our income.

Just as a side note, there is a company that does health insurance rating, the company is called A.M. Best. Check out the A.M. Best website if you are looking for health insurance ratings.

Pitching to Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists

In doing research on pitching for capital, I came across this great video from David Rose:

(David S. Rose on pitching to VCs)

Click here for more links and info on this subject.

Join the Army of Entrepreneurs

In his commencement address to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last Sunday, Kauffman Foundation President and CEO Carl Schramm told students,

“We need an army of the smartest, most passionate young people to try their hand at building a business-people who will take their heads and their hearts into the market, founding companies that will bring forth new products and services that will help humankind.”