Articles - Venture Capital
Review articles on Venture Capital
| Articles | Short Reviews |
|---|---|
| Bookstrap Finance Lynn Neeley Coleman Council for Entrepreneurship Education Paper Prepared for the CEAE Coleman Foundation, March 2001 Management Department Northern Illinois University Pages 1-51 |
This paper is a comprehensive review of alternative on and off balance sheet financing for entrepreneurs. This guide is valuable in times of VC paucity and useful at all times in preserving founder equity. |
| Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital Henry W. Chesbrough Fast Company March 2002 Pages 90-99 |
This article creates a useful linguistic framework to describe different strategies for corporate VC funds. Many of these funds have floundered because their aims have been poorly defined; the mapping described is helpful in communicating plans to the various constituents that must sign off on corporate venture funding. |
| Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (Corporate America is Pouring Money into the Venture Capital Sweepstakes) Stephen Barr CFO October 1998 Pages 85-89 |
It is always interesting to read "history" in a rapidly changing area. This review of corporate VC funds at the height of activity would be interesting to compare with the current views within the companies listed in the article—however, the up- cycle will return sometime. |