Venture Deals Book: Smarter Strategies for Entrepreneurs Than Lawyers & Venture Capitalists | Startup Funding Guide for Business Growth

I read Brad & Jason's outstanding treatise, Venture Deals, from my own context as a guy with many billions of dollars, and multiple decades, of deal experience - but in a very different context (international oil, gas and minerals deals, typically in harsh political environments), i.e. that of corporate and project finance rather than Brad/Jason's context of "venture deals," as they wonderfully describe in their treatment. This difference of financial/deal perspective is important, I believe, in what I wish to say in giving my view of the relevance and usefulness of Venture Deals.Whether "smaller" venture deals - of the, generally, under-$1 billion scope that Brad and Jason address - or the $10 billion to $100 billion scope of deals inherent to the global extractive resources space, the FUNDAMENTALS of financial, economic, legal, human, strategic, tactical and negotiations considerations are substantially the SAME.It is these fundamentals that Brad and Jason so well, accurately and constructively describe in this fine book. Furthermore, as is obvious to anyone familiar with the significant achievements of Boulder-based Foundry Group, the narrative offered in Venture Deals is underlain by the voices of deep, well-tested and hardened experience in mobilizing real capital for real deals. So, save yourself, say, one to four graduate-level courses at places like Stanford or MIT Sloan, and instead, do these two things: i) give a good reading of Venture Deals; and then, ii) re-read, and deeply study, this same superb text with the critical eye of a person who's paying one's own way through any of the great, and expensive, graduate schools that purvey any of Finance, Law, or other related disciplines. These guys have really nailed it! And, your ROI for both time and money will be hugely rewarded.