実際に投資をされている方からお勧めされた英語の本を読んで見ました。シリコンバレーなどで起業されたい方や投資側に回る方には良い本です。

起業するなら学生の時もいいタイミングだよっていうのも納得です。あとは、起業していきなりVCに投資されることを考えるよりは、まずはエンジェルを探してみることやアクセラレーターなどの大企業とベンチャー企業が共同で新規事業を始める所からやってみるのが良さそうだとのことです。

エンジェルの投資もほとんどローカルで行われるので、やはりシリコンバレーで起業するのがエンジェルからの投資を受けやすいと。なので他の場所でシリコンバレーと同じような場所を作ろうと思っても作れないのですね。

「The Entrepreneurial Bible To Venture Capital」
I would advise that if you really want to just make money, stay away from entrepreneurship, or at least the very early stage deals.  VC funding, 60 percent fail to return the money raised. Of those that do return the money raised, 30 percent just return the cash one time. Only 10 percent of their portfolios make all the profit for the VC funds. Entrepreneurship is indeed a risky business.

Become an entrepreneur if you must, but admit that this is a lifestyle decision. Some entrepreneurs are risk addicts and can’t be helped. My advice is to do it when you are young or in early retirement when you have nothing to lose. If you can’t afford to take the risk, don’t do it. If you do take the risk, may you at least be good and lucky!

One of the best times to start a business is when you are student.

Most angel investors are likely to invest locally. This is part of why it is so hard to replicate the Silicon Valley in other parts of the world.

A quick tip to first-time entrepreneurs: stop thinking about VCs and focus on angles: that’s where your startup starts up.

Rather than look for a job, I would advise young entrepreneurs to join an accelerator, fail perhaps, and get recruited into the deal that works. You might get into the next bit thing before the angel round, and just as with an MBA.

StartUp Bus is a low-cost way of getting to SXSW.

if your startup wants to raise $500,000 to produce a great new widget, you put a profile and video on Crowdfunder and, if enough people pledge to buy your widget and the target amount has been raised, then the cash is transferred to the startup.

“borrow money if you have to from your parents to start a business”

Pitch lawyers before pitching angels

If you are an entrepreneur, angle, or VC you must get out there and network. Do not expect rapid-fire good things to come from a networking event. It is the one or two people out of the 30 that you meet that make the event worth the investment. For many entrepreneurs, angles, and VCs involved with The Funders Club. They read this book, this book can be a source of deal flow and investors for all of us.

The best index for how VC investments will perform is the NASDAQ stock index because it lets us know what price we can sell out companies for.


Every entrepreneur should have some basic documentation when fundraising
A one or two page executive summary
A 10 slide PPT investor slide deck
A longer version of the same slide deck designed for a 20 minutes pitch
As many backup slides as you want for answering questions and taking a deeper dive on any topic asked by the investor 
The financial model
An investor control schedule
Ad demo or video reel

Answer questions quickly without getting defensive. Be a good storyteller. Most successful entrepreneurs are great storytellers. They have to be able to get investors to believe in their crazy idea. “Stay in touch” means “no”.

Relationships and references. Work with someone that your peers have worked with. Work with someone your board knows and work with someone that your partners have worked with. Then do your own due diligence. When push comes to shove, you want someone who believes in you, the company, and what you are trying to build.

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