Week 8 Reading Reflection

1. What I found most interesting is the amount of money that venture capitalist have invested in companies. I also thought it was interesting that they don't typically invest in start up companies and new companies but invest in later-stage companies.
2. One part of the reading that confused me was the paragraph about private placement. I was confused as to who the company could sell their stock too, whether they were allowed to sell it to friends, family, and employees or they were not allow to sell it to them.
3. The first question I would ask the author is "Which is the best way to produce capital as a start up company?" I would ask this because I would want to know which method they thought was best. The second question I would ask the author is "Why don't venture capitalist typically invest in start up companies?" I understand there is greater risk in a start up company than in a later stage company but wouldn't investing in the right start up company at the beginning be a better investment than in a later stage company?
4. There was nothing that I would disagree with that the author wrote. They covered all areas of sources of capital that I could thing of and then some. I learned a lot in this chapter.