Chapter 10 The Venture Capitalist's Rulebook to Investing

DOI: 10.4324/9781003381976-10

How VCs make investment decisions is a very systemic process. It is organized in successive well-established phases. Each of these can be very intensive and long, depending on the actions of either party (the start-up or the investor).

Investment funds spend a lot of time managing their investments and analyzing several projects in parallel before making an investment. They are very busy and can only devote a short time to each company that does a first pitch. Negotiations can drag on when you have several investors around the table, each with different interests ...

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