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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)
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:
  1. Must be a private company building a software based product or service.
  2. Must be less than 3 years old.
  3. 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.
Click here to download (PPT File)
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.