ECorner: Choose Venture Investors Carefully

18 August 2010

William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, suggests that when raising money, entrepreneurs should carefully select venture investors based on the quality and value of the partnership not funding terms alone. Specifically, Sahlman argues that although all VCs claim to be value-added investors, the entrepreneurs job is to find the investors who add rather than subtract value.

Video: William Sahlman - Choose Venture Investors Carefully

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship education and research center located within the School of Engineering at Stanford University. The outreach efforts include annual conferences, campus-wide collaboration, and dissemination of teaching content through the ECorner website. ECorner Resources are distributed under the terms of this Creative Commons License.

Submitted by Arts Regional Trust Te Taumata Toi a Iwi (ART) on Wed, 18/08/2010 - 3:46pm.

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ART is an arts and creative industries development agency and a leading investor in growing entrepreneurship in Auckland’s creative sector. The City Councils of Auckland and Manukau created the Arts Regional Trust Te Taumata Toi-a–iwi (ART) in 2000 to manage and grow their combined share of funds provided through the disestablishment of Auckland Regional Services Trust.

To date, ART has invested in a number of significant projects in partnership with other organisations such as the city councils of the Auckland region, universities and government agencies.