Video: Funding your dream

By Charles Plant @ MaRS

July 10, 2007

Click to view “Funding Your Dream”

Every once in a while you run into a great video that explains things very clearly. I keep coming back to one that I saw last November. The video is a recording of the “Funding Your Dream” panel at Garage’s “Art of the Start” Conference. The speakers are:

Daniel Ahn, Managing Director – Woodside Fund
Susan Mason, General Partner – Onset Ventures
Chris Moran, General Manager – Applied Ventures
Warren Packard, Managing Director – Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Ian Sobieski, Founder and Managing Director – Band of Angels Fund

If you have not seen it, it is well worth the 54 minutes. Topics include:

Getting to venture capitalists
How to make a presentation
The optimal length of a business plan
How to handle the valuation process
Role changes in the founding team

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Charles Plant @ MaRS

Charles Plant has been the CEO or CFO of several successful software companies. He's also been a management consultant, an investment banker, an auditor and an advisor at MaRS.