Ivan Nikkhoo is an experienced entrepreneur, investment banker and VC focused on the life cycle of tech companies. He is a Managing Director at Siemer & Associates and an advisor to Siemer Ventures.

Venture Capital: A Practice Guidebook for Capital-Seeking Business, Owners, Managers and Advisors is a complete book covering the basics of venture capital funding, including a overview of venture ...

There is such leverage in high gross profit margins once a company is past breakeven. Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. A ten ...

Three Keys to Obtaining Venture Capital is designed to help first-time entreprenuers understand the venture capital process and provides a useful step-by-step tool for creating a business plan.

This may be news, but boards of directors can offer bad advice. A typical board is composed of five persons in a company that has received outside funds from professional investors. Two members ...

Most companies that raise their seed and Series A rounds fail, primarily due to a few reasons: Lack of product-market fit and team issues are common. The most common reason, however, is the lack of ...

The allure to of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Big companies make a number of seductive promises, including access to large markets, significant financial resources and vital public ...

Jason Nazar, CEO of Beverly Hills-based DocStoc, has earned a reputation in the Los Angeles community for helping out other startups and entrepreneurs through events, efforts such as a monthly town ...

The halcyon days of start-up companies and the venture community attraction to them hit a hard stop as the COVID-19 lock down spread across the U.S. earlier this year. As the first half of 2020 nears ...

What are venture capitalists looking for today? Entrepreneurs often have a hard time figuring out what venture capitalists are looking for, and when the best time it is to approach them for funding.

I was recently at the Le Web conference in Paris where Travis Kalanick, the Cofounder and CEO of Uber was one of the speakers. It is ironic that the idea for Uber was conceived in Paris, France, where ...