The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital

40 leading venture capitalists come together to teach entrepreneurs how to succeed with their startup

The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital is packed with invaluable advice about how to raise angel and venture capital funding, how to build value in a startup, and how to exit a company with maximum value for both founders and investors. It guides entrepreneurs through every step in an entrepreneurial venture from the legalities of raising initial capital to knowing when to change tactics.

Andrew Romans is the co-founder and general partner of Rubicon Venture Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in privately held technology companies and enables its investors to co-invest along side the fund on a deal-by-deal basis via innovative sidecar funds right up to IPO or M&A exit. Romans is also the founder and general partner of The Founders Club, a venture capital equity exchange fund and investor in later stage liquidity transactions.

Table of Contents

1 Start Me Up!

2 Angels, Mortals, and Super Angels

3 How Venture Capital Works

4 What to Bring to the Dog and Pony Show!

5 Practical Ideas and Advice on Raising VC Funding

6 Corporate Governance:Who’s The Boss?

7 Company Building and Growing Value

8 Which Way to the Exit?

9 Do We Need All These Lawyers?

10 Ladder to Liquidity:The Secondary Market

About the Author

Andrew Romans is a successful, consistently top decile performing VC, VC-backed entrepreneur and 4x author, university professor, host of podcast Fireside with a VC, former tech VC and M&A investment banker, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital and previously the founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. He is the author of THE ENTREPRENEURIAL BIBLE TO VENTURE CAPITAL: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game, Masters of Corporate Venture Capital and Masters of Blockchain, which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Russian by major publishers. Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). Romans raised over 48m dollars for tech startups he founded by the age of 28. Romans founded numerous startups and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding and led startups to exits. Romans was also a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital at Chapman University. In addition to teaching a class on VC & entrepreneurship at Chapman University one of California’s oldest universities, he has lectured on VC at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, UC San Diego, Georgetown University, London Business School, Imperial College London, University of Bologna, Moscow State University, Tsinghua University Beijing & Shanghai University. He is also a frequent guest speaker on MSNBC, CNBC, and ABC.

Fluent in English, French and German he holds a BA from the University of Vermont, studied in Paris and Berlin at École Active Bilingue (now École Jeannine Manuel), Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, which he completed on scholarship.