February User Group:: Venture Capital 101

Got a great idea but no money to fund it? Looking to move your company public? Not quite sure what a term sheet is or what it should look like? Wouldn't know bootstrap from mezzanine funding if you bumped into it on the street?

Join BostonPHP, Austin Westerling of Charles River Ventures, Larry Bohn of General Catalyst Venture Partners , Michael Skok of North Bridge Venture Partners and David Beisel of Masthead Venture Partners (and founder of the Web Innovators group - listen to BostonPHP's interview with David here ) to get answers to these and a host of other questions.

In addition to the basics, we will also delve into areas like:

• Why are VC's interested in OSS?
• Is VC funding obsolete in Web 2.0?
• Is mobile the micro payment savior - or will the Web's financial future remain in the hands of Goggle AdWords?
• What are the latest business OSS models and what's GPL v3's impact on them?
  

Help MC this discussion - add your topic to our wiki Can't make it to the meeting? Listen via Skypecast (search on BostonPHP).

BostonPHP works in conjunction with BostonPHP Meetup, usually meeting the first Wednesday of every month for structured presentation at a local university or business location, and then typically moves on to a nearby restaurant/bar/pub for more informal discussion .