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The First 180 Days After Receiving Venture Capital Funding
ReedLogic is pleased to present a video seminar for CEOs of VC-Funded Companies on the roles and goals for the CEO and other management team members for the first 6 months after receiving venture capital funding. The DVD-based seminar, "The First 180 Days After Receiving Venture Capital Funding," focuses on achieving key product/service goals, meeting financial projections, overcoming common challenges, and case studies of what worked/didn't work for other companies in their first six months after receiving venture capital funding. The 120 minute video-seminar (viewable on any computer or iPod) features keynote speeches by Joe Apprendi (CEO of VC-Funded Collective Media), Lea B. Pendleton (Venture Capital Lawyer with Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton PC), and Teo Dagi (Venture Capitalist, HLM Venture Partners), as well as the insights of numerous other executives of VC-Funded companies. Take advantage of this resource that has been invaluable to CEOs of other VC-Funded companies after they received funding. To see a sample of this ReedLogic video seminar, please visit www.ReedLogic.com . Samples of the types of questions answered in the video seminar include:
- What qualities does a management team of a venture backed company need to have to be successful in the first 180 days after receiving venture capital funding?
- What are the top three things a management team needs to focus on after receiving funding? Can you walk me through each of these three things and why they are important?
- How is the corporate strategy different after receiving venture capital funding? How are the short and long term goals different?
- What is the role that the venture capitalists play in the first 180 days after receiving funding?
- What changes do they like to see implemented right away?
- What is the role that the board of directors play in the first 180 days after receiving funding?
- What are the biggest challenges that a newly funded company faces in the first 180 days?
- What are the biggest pitfalls for companies to avoid in the first 180 days after receiving funding?
- What should the product/service goals be for the first 180 days?
- What should be the revenue goals for the first 180 days?
- Are there usually key hires that need to be made within the first 180 days?
- What significant events could occur in the first 180 days that the management team needs to be prepared for?
- What red flags should CEOs look for to make sure they are headed on the right track with the company?
- How important is it to hit the financial projections in the first 180 days? What should a company do if they are not hitting them?
- What other key metrics are venture capitalists monitoring in those first 180 days to make sure they company is achieving their goals?
- What is the role of the CEO in the first 180 days after receiving funding? What should be his or her goals for those first 180 days?
- What is the role of the CFO in the first 180 days after receiving funding? What should be his or her goals for those first 180 days?
- What is the role of the CTO in the first 180 days after receiving funding? What should be his or her goals for those first 180 days?
- What is the role of the CMO/Head of Sales in the first 180 days after receiving funding? What should be his or her goals for those first 180 days?
- What is the role of the board of directors in the first 180 days after receiving funding? What should be their goals for those first 180 days?
- Are there any other key employees that will significantly impact the first 180 days? What should be their role?
- In what ways can these key executives sometimes conflict? How do you remove this conflict, or avoid it before it occurs?
- What is the best advice for each of the following people in a company that has venture capital funding - with respect to working with the venture capitalists in the first 180 days: CEO; CFO; CTO; CMO; Board Members?
- How do you judge if a company is growing enough, from a revenue and profit standpoint? Can this really be judged in the first 180 days? What factors do you take into consideration? What is the most important aspect of this? Why?
- What are good growth percentages for a VC-funded company to have? How do you determine this? How important are the first 180 days in showing the right path to achieving this? In what way does this depend on the type of company or its size? What other factors might impact what you consider a "good" growth percentage?
- How should a management team monitor their financials? What systems should they have in place in the first 180 days? Why are these important?
- How should a management team monitor the profitability of the company? When is profitability important in the life of a venture capital backed company - how does it rank in terms of priorities? What factors will impact the profitability? How can an IPO or M&A affect the profitability of the company, in the short and long-term? How does this impact the first 180 days?
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