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is an innovative and easy to read guide to key
issues faced by entrepreneurs, illustrated with real life examples, comments and
opinions from eight Silicon Valley Legends.

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Silicon Valley Legends"

provides details of the areas of investment interest for the over 150 Seed & Early stage VC firms in Silicon Valley, enabling entrepreneurs seeking funding to focus in on the firms that want to hear from them, and not waste time and energy approaching firms that have no interest in their technologies.

is a self extracting ZIP file contain the following 4 tools for entrepreneurs embarking on the hunt for venture capital:

Is your business fundable? - this is a quick and straight forward self evaluation checklist to enable entrepreneurs to qualify the fundability of their businesses.

Funding Flow - charts the critical steps for a successful funding approach, and highlights the most common, and most costly, dead end.

10 slide funding pitch template - details the information investors need to see to enable them to evaluate your proposition for investment. Includes guidelines on the percentage of presenting entrepreneurs that typically present each section well.

Creating a compelling Executive Summary - drawing on the lessons learned from reviewing over 18,000 executive summaries, this is THE guide for creating a compelling executive summary.
is a self extracting ZIP file contain the following 5 tools for entrepreneurs embarking on the hunt for venture capital:

Winning Funding Strategies - How much do you really need? How many rounds? And from whom? Getting funding isn't easy, and getting the right money at the right time on the right terms takes a lot of hard work.

Top 10 Legal Mistakes - a clear explanation of the Top 10 legal issues that can cause startups to stumble, and how to avoid them.

Understanding Valuations , Investor Perspective details how investors approach valuation at various stages of startup growth.

Equity Instrument & Term Sheet Provisions a detailed explanation of all those arcane terms you've heard bandied about, and why some deals turn out to be less attractive than they originally appeared.

Sample A round Term Sheet an example of what you should expect in the term sheet for your first institutional round of funding
is a clear, concise summary of the SVASE Main Event of the same name..

is a clear, concise summary of the SVASE Main Event of the same name..

is a clear, concise summary of the SVASE Business Interface Group event of the same name.

provides overviews of each VC  firm, the partner who participated in this SVASE program during the quarter, the email addresses for these partners plus a chart showing each firm's areas of interest.

Learning from Silicon Valley Legends - Sneak Peek

SVASE 10 Slide Template

AIMWhitePaper 2

16 Mistakes Startups make

Risk Management Guide 2006

One page company profile for SVASE Members seeking Advisors through the SVASE AdvisorConnect program.  Participation in the SVASE AdvisorConnect program is an exclusive benefit for SVASE Members.  SVASE Members should be able to provide most, if not all, of the information requested in this profile before sending to President@svase.org