I’ve written previously about our experience this year raising a $25M Series C round of venture financing. Venture Diaries: Part One discusses why you want to think before you act and investigate who to target as potential investor partners. Venture Diaries: Part Two looks at how to perform your investigation. In this third […]

According the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), there are 798 venture capital firms managing more than $235B in the United States. These are long-term, professional investors who specialize in funding and building new, innovative companies.
So how do you figure out who to approach for funding? This is the area where I find […]

A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company, Splunk. As an exercise I decided to keep notes on the progress of the fund raising in hopes of looking back and perhaps sharing a thing or two with other entrepreneurs. I’ve raised a lot of venture […]

With all the consumer Internet, video sharing, Web 2.0 hype in Silicon Valley, it’s easy to forget lots of money still gets made investing in the less sexy nuts and bolts stuff. This past week, the Wall Street Journal published a piece summing up the effect of technology IPOs over the past 18 months. […]