PART I

 VC FINANCING & ORGANIZATION

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION answered the following questions: What is Venture Capital? What is its role in the economy and in the financing of companies? What characterizes venture investments? We also introduced the entire Venture Capital investment process, which we call The VC Process.

We now continue with Part I of this book where we answer the questions: How does a VC firm typically finance a company? How is a VC firm set up and staffed?

We start with Chapter 2: VC FINANCING which describes the financing rounds typical of VC investments and how this funding process helps the VC firm to achieve superior returns.

In Chapter 3: VC ORGANIZATION we describe how VC firms are set up and the qualities of the staff that they look for.