VC Perspectives: What VCs Look For
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Share advice about the range of filters and perspectives that VCs use to evaluate investment opportunities by region, stage, sector, etc.. Learn what matters and what doesnt on both sides of the table. From writing business plans to projecting revenue, from building the team to protecting intellectual property, find out what is required to persuade VCs to invest in your company by participating and sharing your own views.
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Here are the 10 things venture capitalist will be looking for that you'll need to have in place: 1. Market-ready product. You need to have gone through the trials and tribulations of building a product that works well and meets customer needs. It is not enough for your product to work for one type of customer; it must be able to satisfy the needs of many. 2. Solid business model. You must have a proven business model with a clear path to long-term profits. You need to have worked out all the details of what you are selling, to whom, and at what price; and how you are going to reach your customers, persuade them to buy from you, and support them when things go wrong. 3. Brilliant business pl...
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Samir Das
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it is also important to see if profits flow in the business within 4 to 6 yrs time span
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By Drew Clark 01.2.08 Drew Clark [Editor s note: This is an Op-Ed piece by Drew Clark, Director of Strategy and co-founder of IBM s Venture Capital Group. Over the past few weeks, we ve posted 2008 predictions from entrepreneur Bernard Moon and VCs Baris Karadogan and Jeremy Liew (you can find those stories here , here and here , respectively). We want to finish out the picture with a view from a big corporate investor.] Throughout the course of the year, IBM s Venture Capital Group meets with hundreds of VCs and portfolio companies here in the United States and around the world. Our ongoing conversations with all of these groups has given us quite a bit of insight into what the VCs see as ...
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I agree with you Veena. Education is going to be a multi billion dollar business in India in coming years.
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I would like to be a little careful while going in for full time education business, as it requires good infrastructure, facilities, prefered location etc. Infrastructure is the primary requirement for education business as nowadays...
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Yes i think they should bet on Education, as education is taking very good shape in the country and with new reforms that will be in place in the future, this is a right time for them to invest in this area which would not have found many takers...
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