TY - JOUR T1 - Eight Ways to Ruin Your Chances of Raising Venture Capital JF - The Journal of Private Equity SP - 78 LP - 82 DO - 10.3905/jpe.2000.319971 VL - 3 IS - 3 AU - Burt Alimansky Y1 - 2000/08/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/3/3/78.abstract N2 - While entrepreneurs scrabble like lemmings toward the gateways of venture capital communities, only a small fraction of them are admitted to that particular ocean of capital. There are a number of things that stalwart voyagers can do… and more specifically, not do, that will increase the likelihood that their efforts will be rewarded. This insightful article vividly illustrates some of the fatal faults that can fell the unwary entrepreneur. ER -