ScaleVP's VC Market Update for Entrepreneurs
ScaleVP's Kate Mitchell gave a presentation
to entrepreneurs in December 2008 at Silicon Valley Bank on the
market dynamics. ScaleVP believes in the next 12-24 months, the
market leading companies of the next decade will be built with
continued capital investment tempered by rigorous capital efficiency.
Start-Ups: When Cutting Costs Won't Cut
It
By Rory O'Driscoll (November 4, 2008 - Business
Week)
Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners,
Rory O'Driscoll discusses how entrepreneurs seeking capital in
a downturn need a "must-have" business proposition, enough cash
to keep operations on track, and a team that can execute. It
is great advice to entrepreneurs world-wide.
Futurist Michael Rogers Delights 150 ScaleVP
CEOs With Visions About Virtualization
(October 7, 2008)
Michael Rogers, the author of the popular Practical
Futurist column for MSNBC and former futurist-in-residence at
the New York Times Company spoke on October 7, 2008 to a packed
SCALE Venture Partners and 150-person CEO crowd who were networking
happily with Scale Partners, and friends at the Epic Roast house
in San Francisco. In an event that Scale Venture Partners created
to support their portfolio companies desire to learn from each
other and others, Rogers discussed the impact of virtualization
as a social phenomenon, and the implications for business, society
and the economy. Rogers's perspective is captured in this 33
minute podcast taped live at the event.
Making Sales 2.0 Work for You:
A ScaleVP Event (June 4, 2008)
Increasing revenue is a universal goal of every
senior sales and marketing executive. To achieve that goal, successful
companies today are using next generation Web 2.0 technologies
to accelerate their sales process, to align sales and marketing
teams, to develop new sales channels, and to improve sales forecasting
and execution. ScaleVP hosted a summit for more than 50 private
company sales and marketing executives to share their expertise
on how to make the most use of these new strategies.
Scale Venture Partners hosts co-authors
Shel Israel and Robert Scoble of Naked Conversations and Blogging (April
11, 2006)
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Given ScaleVP's relationship with Microsoft,
we are able to offer our startups an opportunity to obtain
free software.
To obtain this software, startups must fulfill
the following criteria:
- Must be a private company building a software based product
or service.
- Must be less than 3 years old.
- Must have less than $1M in current revenue.
Startups must sign up themselves, but they are pre-approved based
on our referral.
As a first step, please sign up to be an authorized program partner
by clicking
on this link.
Board of Directors Template
Entrepreneurs often ask the Scale Venture Partners
Managing Directors for a Board of Directors package template.
Here are our guidelines.
Executive Summary Outline
Entrepreneurs need an executive summary to
help them better present business ideas to their investors.
Standard Capitalization Table
For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in their
calculations Scale Venture Partners provides our standard capitalization
table.
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