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Entrepreneur’s Corner: Your Secret Decoder Ring for VC Speak
blog, Miscellaneous /by Global Entrepreneurship WeekGuest blog post by Sharon Wienbar,Scale Venture Partners While Some Believe VC Questions Are Off-Base, Realize That There’s a Method to Our Madness As an entrepreneur with big dreams and a killer idea, walking into an investor meeting can be a bit of a reality check. VCs aren’t just going to fall over and swoon […]
NVCA Celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week
blog, Miscellaneous /by Bobby FranklinThis week, NVCA will join the world in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week. Entrepreneurship energizes America’s spirit and its economy – permeating all of its industries, technologies, products, services and geographies. It’s not hyperbole to say that venture capital would not exist without entrepreneurs and the innovative companies they build. In turn, venture plays a unique […]
Venture-Backed Innovation Thrives Across the U.S.
blog, Miscellaneous /by Bobby FranklinAs an Arkansas native, I’ve learned an important rule of thumb for visiting cities like Chicago: Get there before it gets cold. I don’t think I accomplished that last week when I blew into the Windy City as part of my nationwide NVCA “listen and learn” tour. But I certainly appreciated the warm reception I […]
Moving More EGCs from the On-Ramp to IPOs
blog, Capital Formation & Regulation, Public Policy /by Jennifer Connell DowlingThis past Monday, NVCA participated in the release of a new report aimed at improving access to public capital for startups and emerging growth companies. Entitled “From the On-Ramp to the Freeway: Refueling Job Creation and Growth by Reconnecting Investors with Small-Cap Companies,” the report follows up on the 2011 efforts of the IPO Task Force, […]
TRANSFER Act Aims to Aid Tech Transfer between Labs and Startups
blog, Miscellaneous /by Emily BakerThroughout its history, NVCA has strongly supported the allocation of federal funds for research at universities, nonprofit research institutes and federal laboratories. That’s because America’s entrepreneurs often take the groundbreaking discoveries generated in these settings today and turn them into the life-saving and life-changing products of tomorrow. However, this process can only take place if […]
There’s Reason for Optimism in Q3 MoneyTree Report
blog, Research, Venture Investment /by John TaylorAmidst the talk of economic gloom and doom in D.C. this week, the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters, provided some encouragement for venture capitalists, innovators and entrepreneurs. Early Stage dollar investments rose to their highest level in 12 years, rising […]
FAF FAS 157 Review: NVCA CFO Task Force Strongly Encourages Needed Changes to the Rules
blog, Miscellaneous /by John TaylorOne of the top priorities of the NVCA CFO Task Force is to engage the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), the parent organization to accounting policy-maker FASB, as it undertakes a post-implementation review (PIR) of the fair value measurement and reporting rules. This rule set is widely known by its original name, “Financial Accounting Statement 157” […]
The SEC’s Proposed New Rules on General Solicitation
blog, Capital Formation & Regulation, Public Policy /by Jennifer Connell DowlingAmong the many bills packaged together in 2012 to form the JOBS Act was a measure that forced the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revisit its long-time ban on “general solicitation” – i.e. advertising – for private offerings. Although it has taken the SEC more than a year to craft final rules lifting the […]
Day 1 at NVCA
blog, Miscellaneous /by Bobby FranklinDear Members and Friends of NVCA: As you all return from what has hopefully been a productive and rejuvenating summer, so too do we at the NVCA, with a robust and exciting agenda for the coming weeks and months. Today, the staff and I are gathered in Washington D.C. discussing our top priorities and strategies […]
NVCA Weighs In with U.S. Senate on Tax Reform
blog, Public Policy, Taxes /by Jennifer Connell DowlingIn late June, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) proposed jump-starting tax reform by starting with a “blank slate” that eliminates all tax expenditures – both corporate and individual – in the code. They then asked their Senate colleagues to formally weigh in on which expenditures or credits should […]