3 ms·
Ask HN: A book on Silicon Valley model of startup company formation
I'm a bit puzzled by the lingo (series A, seed, etc) used by investors. I want to have clear understanding of the whole process before I start contacting investors. Is there any book you can recommend?
- lavash 13y agoI don't know any book about this topic, but you can find so many useful information on this website: http://startuplawyer.com/ http://startuplawyer.com/
- mindcrime 13y agohttp://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalist/dp/1118443616/ http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis... http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VC-Game-Venture-Start-up/dp/1591843251/ref=pd_sim_b_20?ie=UTF8&refRID=09JV43Y2YAWN4SARB7QT http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VC-Game-Venture-Start-up/dp/... http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Game-Partnership-Entrepreneurs/dp/023010486X/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=19WX0QW9RZ6FFKJ3P8B2 http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Game-Partnership-Entrepren... http://www.amazon.com/Term-Sheets-Valuations-Intricacies-Bigwig/dp/1587620685/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=19WX0QW9RZ6FFKJ3P8B2 http://www.amazon.com/Term-Sheets-Valuations-Intricacies-Big... http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dollar-Successes/dp/1430238372/ref=pd_sim_b_15?ie=UTF8&refRID=19WX0QW9RZ6FFKJ3P8B2 http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dolla... http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Venture-Capital-Serious-Entrepreneur/dp/0071496025/ref=pd_sim_b_17?ie=UTF8&refRID=19WX0QW9RZ6FFKJ3P8B2 http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Venture-Capital-Serious-Entrep... http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Hardened/dp/1591840562/ref=pd_sim_b_21?ie=UTF8&refRID=19WX0QW9RZ6FFKJ3P8B2 http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Harde... I believe any one or more of those will get you going in the right direction. All of those I've either read, or have seen recommended highly enough by people I trust, that I feel comfortable recommending them. The Guy Kawasaki book is a good, basic introduction to starting a startup, although it's a little old now. I think most of it is still relevant though. A lot of this stuff is probably on the 'net as well, but you may have to dig around for it a bit. Quora has a lot of good questions (and good answers) on VC / startup topics, so that might be worth a look. Also, a number of high profile VCs maintain blogs where they share a lot of useful information. Mark Suster comes to mind (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/) and does Brad Feld (http://www.feld.com/wp/ http://www.feld.com/wp/). Note that Brad Feld is the author of one of the above books.
- ASquare 13y agoPaul Graham himself wrote a great essay on this which should answer most if not all of your questions: http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html