Beginners Guide To Venture Capital

The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans MIT Course 15.975 entrepreneurship.mit.edu/15975 Joe Hadzima (MIT S.B., M.S. in Management; Harvard Law) Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School Managing Director, Main Street Partners LLC [email_address] A Beginner’s Guide to Venture Capital Copyright 2007, Joseph G. Hadzima, Jr., All Rights Reserved This Presentation may be used for academic purposes with attribution

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The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans – MIT Course 15.975 Joe Hadzima ,[object Object],[object Object],Venture Capital Fund Limited Partners Pension Funds, Educational Endowments, Foundations, Insurance Companies, Wealthy Individuals General Partners These are the “Venture Capitalists” you will deal with. They may have been Entrepreneurs in a prior life or they might be financial types. The General Partners use an Offering Memorandum to raise a fund of a given size from the Limited Partners by convincing them that the GPs have a unique strategy or expertise in a particular sector or sectors of the market. Fund raising can take a year or more. If the GPs are successful they will convince enough Limited Partners to invest enough money to achieve the size fund offered. When this happens there is a first “close” of the fund.

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