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FUNDAMENTALS OF VENTURE CAPITAL 0.1: Chapter 1 - What Is All The Talk About? 0.2: Chapter 2 - Where Should I Look for Seed Capital? 0.3: Chapter 3 - How On Earth Do I Put A Value On My Company? 0.4: Chapter 4 - What Legal Form Works Best For You? 0.5: Chapter 5 - What Will My Corporation Look Like? 0.6: Chapter 6 - Tax Discussion For The Non-Lawyer 0.7: Chapter 7 - Drafting the Business Plan and the Placement Memo 0.8: Chapter 8 - Investors Terms 0.9: Chapter 9 - I Have A Letter of Intent: Whats In The Contract? 0.10: Chapter 10 - Selling Stock, Privately... And Legally 0.11: Chapter 11 - Compensating Your Key Executives 0.12: Chapter 12 - How To Go To The Promised Land (i.e. Go Public) 0.13: Chapter 13 - Financing with Strategic Investors: Joint Ventures 0.14: Conclusion 0.1: Chapter 1 - What Is All The Talk About? Sub-Topics 0.1.1: Introduction To Venture Capital 0.1.2: What Is Venture Capital? 0.1.3: How Venture Capitalists Talk 0.1.4: Should You Start Your Own Company? 0.1.5: You Can Make It...Will Someone Buy It? 0.1.1: Introduction To Venture Capital Confounding many of its critics of a few years ago, the American economy is outstripping the economies of its sister industrial nations by an astonishing margin. The United States has been breathtakingly successful in creating new jobs. While Europeans are experiencing double-digit unemployment, the U.S. economic engine continues to roar, combining low unemployment and low inflation in ways which seem to puncture the accepted econometric models. The Japanese miracle, the Pacific Rim tigers . . . little need be said about their recent fall from grace, except that it has happened despite educated workforces, positive balances of payments, high savings rates, strong productivity, and a work ethic which equals if not exceeds that prevalent in the United States. What is going on here? We are not the richest nation in terms of natural resources (although, of course, we are blessed); Russia certainly has