They can't pay as much attention to you as a VC on your board could.
他们不能在你的董事会里投入像一个风投可以投入的那么多注意力。
Post a blog article or public thank-you when a VC helps, mentors or introduces you to someone or something, and the VC will get an email alerting them.
发布博客文章或公开的感谢你得到了一个VC的帮助，帮你介绍某人或某事，之后VC就会收到一封电子邮件提醒他们。
With regards to a VC that sees all of the competition, I have found that most VCs are very good at not leaking information across companies.
对于那些会看所有的竞争对手的VC，我发现他们中的大部分非常擅于保证信息不会在这些公司之间漏掉。
While there are strategies to soften the impact of this (such as by lowering the voting thresholds), the fact remains that a VC will want to call the shots on these matters.
尽管有策略可以减弱对此的影响(比如降低投票门槛)，事实上风投还是希望能在此类事情上拍板定案。
You want a VC to parrot what you say.
你想让一个VC同意你所说的一切。
I had breakfast this morning with a friend who is a partner at a VC firm I've worked with a few times.
今天早上我与一位朋友一起吃了早饭，他是一家风投的合伙人，我已经和他的公司合作过几次了。
Finally, a VC will have special voting powers for key decisions, such as for issuing new shares, selling the company (or buying one), firing officers, and expanding the board.
最后，风投对重大决策拥有特别投票权，比如发行新股、公司出售(或并购)、解雇高级职员以及扩大董事会。
They fear getting squeezed by a VC that invests in a later round.
担心在以后的资金周转中受到风投公司的压榨。
Today he's a general partner at the VC firm Polaris Ventures.
他现在是北极星风险投资公司的一般合伙人。
If you have never been the CEO of a VC-funded company, you may not know how to do this well.
如果没在风险投资商出资的公司里担任过CEO，那么你可能无法工于此术。
Money comes out of a VC when their greed for your startup stock outweighs their fear of investing.
当一个VC觉得他们对你的股票投资的贪婪要远远超过他们的恐惧时，他们就会掏钱了。
This is the golden ticket for a VC-backed business.
这对风投支持的企业来说就是黄金门票。
In short, if you don't have a good relationship with a classic VC, don't start here.
总之，如果你没有和传统风投很好的关系，别指望从这里起步。
I am sure that there are a lot of other strange things about being a VC.
我敢肯定风险投资公司还有很多其他的不同寻常之处。
Most ones that I know have very high ethical standards, but once a VC has heard your idea he can't "un-think" it.
我认识的大多数风险投资人都有很高的道德操守，但一旦风险投资人听到了你的创业点子，就再也无法把它从头脑中抹去。
As a VC I need to get buy-in from my partners when tough stuff comes up.
作为一个VC，当遇到难搞的事情是，我需要合伙人的支持。
When you get a couple million dollars from a VC firm, you tend to feel rich. It's important to realize you're not.
当你从风投哪里弄到几百万美元之后，你可能会感到自己已经挺有钱了。
Nothing gets the attention of a VC faster than an email message alerting them that their name was newly published to the web.
没有什么比让他们的名字出现在网上更能引起他们的注意力了。
I think angels (and their lawyers) organized rounds this way in unthinking imitation of VC series a rounds.
天使投资人及他们的律师之所以这样做的原因在于，没有考虑到模仿风险投资单轮流程的局限性。
A company that gets acquired for 30 million is a failure to a VC, but it could be a 10x return for an angel, and moreover, a quick 10x return.
一个以3千万被收购的公司对于风投来说是失败的，但是对于天使来说可能是十倍的回报，而且是一个快速的十倍回报。
You'd have to be a very promising startup indeed to get a VC to use up one of his 10 board seats for only a few percent of you.
你得必须是个确实非常有前途的创业公司，才可以让一个风投为了你公司的一点点份额就花掉他的十个董事会席位之一。
If a super-angel gets 10x in one year, that's a higher rate of return than a VC could ever hope to get from a company that took 6 years to go public.
如果一个超级天使在一年内得到10倍的回报，相对于一个风投希望从花六年时间上市的公司那里所得的，是一个更高的回报率。
First-time entrepreneurs often think "If I approach a VC with a chief technology officer or chief prototype designer in place, then I'm more likely to get funded."
首次创业的创业者经常认为“如果我带着首席技术官或者首席原型设计师去见风险投资商的话，我得到资助的可能性就会很大。”
As an expansion-stage venture capitalist for 11 years, I still find it strange when I explain to people how a VC firm is different from a typical business. Here are some of the stranger differences.
虽然身为一个扩张期风险投资人已有11年，我在向别人解释风险投资公司如何不同于普通公司时仍然感觉有些怪怪的。
Ron Conway had angel funds starting in the 1990s, and in some ways First Round Capital is closer to a super-angel than a VC fund.
RonConway在1990年代启动了天使基金，从某种程度上说第一回合资本公司更接近一个超级天使而不是风投基金。
This is why Helion Ventures, a local VC firm, has made a speciality of advising entrepreneurs by, say, helping them find a chief financial officer.
这就是为什么当地风险投资公司HelionVentures要通过帮助猎寻首席财政官来对广告公司做专门研究。
With that in mind, here are nine steps to get you started and improve your odds for getting a VC to bite.
有了这样的心理准备后，就可以依照下列九个步骤来着手并提高自己获得风投青睐的几率。
This is a VC environment in the process.
这是一个在VC环境下的程序。
This is a VC environment in the process.
这是一个在VC环境下的程序。
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