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 I’m currently Managing Director of Amplifier Venture Partners, a seed and early stage venture capital fund making investments in the Mid-Atlantic and Managing Director of Amplifier Networks, a community focused on technology entrepreneurs. I founded Amplifier in 2005, after a career as a corporate and venture capital lawyer with some of the leading technology law firms in the US. Prior to being a lawyer I was an investment banker, arbitrage trader and economist in London, England.
In addition to my roles at Amplifier, I am also an Adjunct Professor at American University and University of Maryland in their respective schools of business and management. I have a leadership role with many organizations in the Mid-Atlantic that focus on technology commercialization, start ups and entrepreneurship.
When I am relaxing I enjoy playing one of my electric guitars too loudly, watching one of my favorite sports teams lose in painful fashion and reading far too much science fiction and current political history.
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
What is Venture Capital? How do Venture Funds invest? -[A_Brief_Introduction_to_VC.pdf]
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
Venture Capital Glossary of Terms -[Glossary of VC Terms.pdf]
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September 22, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
The Decline of the US Venture Capital Industry – What the Government Should Do About It -[AbermanVCwhitepaper.pdf]
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
Bootstrapping is fundamentally a mindset – it’s the entrepreneur saying “I will figure out how to
get this business launched.” There are different flavors of this, but at its cor...
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
The angel investor market in 2008 had a considerable contraction in investment dollars from last year but exhibited little change in the number of investments -[CVR Angel Survey 2...
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
If you don’t explain your business, why
would anyone care about your presentation? -[Describing Your Business Effectively.pdf]
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
The initial steps an emerging company takes can have important ramifications in its ability to later attract high-quality private placement investors. -[Raising Capital Through Pr...
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
Executive Summary -[ExecSummaryTemplate.pdf]
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
There are a number of conditions that need to be satisfied to foster the creation of successful
emerging technology businesses; these conditions are often described as a “technol...
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September 17, 2009 by Aberman, Jonathan
There are some common things that all venture investors use as an initial screen against which
incoming investment opportunities are evaluated. If you have some appreciation of t...
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You might have missed this, but over the last few days Ebay
found a buyer for most of Skype. The
Skype story has many threads that resonate with issues such as the success of
peer-to-peer data networks, the affect of true price competition on the incumbent
telecommunications companies and what happens when a company buys a business
that is outside of its core competency. Skype
has been important bell weather in all of these ways, but the part that has
struck me the most is how it shows the importance of knowing where the core
intellectual property rights are before you buy or invest in the business....
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One of the best things about having a hobby is that it can help you release tensions in a crazy world. And, I am sure you agree, this has been a crazy making time – yo-yo oil markets, nonstop punditry, the cacophony of contrasting opinions and the specter of a Depression. Almost a lifetime’s worth of stress in a single year. It’s been fun, hasn’t it?
I must admit that some of the things that I have seen have made me extremely unhappy, and perhaps a bit of a curmudgeon. Sometimes I’ve shared those opinions in blog postings, but other times they are just great inspirations for songs. Last week the band I play in, Two Car Living Room, played some of these songs in a gig. For those of you that weren’t there, I’d thought I’d post a few of them here. If you are looking for the secrets of raising capital in today’s world, this blog post won’t be of much use to you. But, in the spirit of fun, I thought I would share a few of my songs with you....
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Earlier today I participated in an interesting comment string on Facebook. This is happening more and more to me, and I am sure that I am not alone. As information flows through our lives, via Facebook, Twitter and so on, the ability to share our thoughts and have them shaped by others becomes more efficient and quicker. There is no doubt that these changes facilitate better communication about the trivia of our lives also. But, recently, I have also been having some second thoughts about whether this is always a great thing....
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Recently an entrepreneur I know contacted me to help her figure out what many would call a “high class problem.” She had a potential buyer for her business, and the buyer was asking her the price at which she would be willing to sell her business. Not surprisingly, valuing her business to sell was not something that she had been spending any particular time working on – she was too busy growing her business – but even if she had taken the time she admitted she really had no place to begin. Over the next few days we had series of conversations about how to value her business -- the overall themes of which I thought would be of use to other entrepreneurs. So, with that, here are some thoughts on how you deal with the issue of “what’s your business worth” when an unsolicited buyer comes along....
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For years I have been fighting a lonely battle against written business plans. Recently some of my colleagues at the Smith School of Business published a study that suggested that VCs don’t really care about business plans. An article about the report is
here
and a link to a podcast from the researchers is
here
. In fact, the study, at least as reported by the NY Times, suggests that business plans are useless! Now, that’s a tact that I had never taken but one that I think requires a bit of clarification and guidance for entrepreneurs....
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