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daily p&l profit calculator spreadsheet filetype:xls - Google Search

A Profit & Loss Spreadsheet would be a good first step for managing the accounting of a small business.  If you can get the daily P&L down to a science, it will make it easier to predict how well you will do in the future. 

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VentureBeat » Rosy conditions for raising VC

People are looking outside the stock market for returns. 

It was the second largest increase since the survey six years ago, exceeded only by a 75 percent increase in the first quarter of the year. The survey measured the change in share price during the round. Web 2.0 companies are especially hot. Of 12 financings where the stock price was more than three-fold higher, seven were Web 2.0 or related fields, said Barry Kramer, a partner at the firm.

Source: VentureBeat » Rosy conditions for raising VC

Here is a list of the top 100 firms.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/vc100/stage/early.html

Here's wikipedia's take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_venture_capital_firms

Here's a list of Venture Capital blogs from http://www.ventureblogs.com/

• A little ludwig goes a long way (John Ludwig, Ignition Partners)
• A VC - Musings of a VC in NYC (Fred Wilson, Flatiron Partners, Union Square Ventures)
• A Venture Forth (Dan Grossman, Venrock Associates)
• Above the Crowd (Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital)
• Adventurista (Sarah Travel, Bessemer Venture Partners)
• Allen's Blog (Allen Morgan, Mayfield)
• Ask the VC (Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital and Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group)
• BeyondVC (Ed Sim, Dawntreader Ventures)
• BijanBlog (Bijan Sabet, Spark Capital)
• Burnham's Beat (Bill Burnham, Softbank Capital Partners)
• Christine.net (Christine Herron, Omidyar Network)
• Class V (Sachi Gahan, CenterPoint Ventures)
• Cleantech Investing (Rob Day, Expansion Capital Partners)
• Consuming Ambitions (Tom Cole, Trinity Ventures)
• Cracking the Code (Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners)
• Dav-generated Content (David Dufresne, Desjardins Venture Capital)
• Deal Flow: Venture Capital Blog at BusinessWeek Online
• Deep Green Crystals (Martin Tobias, Ignition Partners)
• Due Diligence (Tim Oren, Pacifica Fund)
• EarlyStageVC (Peter Rip, Leapfrog Ventures)
• Ego Ventures (Andrew D. Luter, BaseCamp Capital)
• Feld Thoughts (Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital)
• Florida Venture Blog (Dan Rua, Inflexion Partners)
• Fred Destin's Blog (Fred Destin, Atlas Venture)
• From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road (Baris Karadogan, ComVentures)
• Geekfishing (Rich Tong, John Zagula, John Ludwig, Michelle Goldberg, Steve Hooper, and Adrian Smith, Ignition Partners)
• Genuine VC (David H. Beisel, Masthead Venture Partners)
• Global-Themes (Shantanu Bhagwat, Amadeus Capital Partners)
• Go Big or Go Home (Rob Schultz, IllinoisVENTURES)
• How to Change the World (Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures)
• Infectious Greed (Paul Kedrosky, Ventures West)
• Israel Venture Capital 2.0 (Daniel Cohen, Gemini Israel Funds)
• John Cook's Venture Blog (John Cook, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Let the Sparks Fly! (Mark Skapinker, Sophie Forest, Tony Davis, Brightspark Ventures)
• Life With Alacrity (Christopher Allen, Alacrity Ventures)
• localglo.be (Saul Klein, Index Ventures)
• Longworth Venture Partners Blog
• McInblog (Ryan McIntyre, Mobius Venture Capital)
• Nivi (Babak Nivi, Bessemer Venture Partners)
• Northwest VC (Steve Hall, Vulcan Capital)
• Nothing To Say (Chris Fralic, First Round Capital)
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained (Jeremy Levine, Bessemer Venture Partners)
• NW Venture Voice (Martin Tobias, Ignition Partners; Kevin Cable, Cascadia Capital; Dave Chen, OVP Partners; John Zagula, Ignition Partners; Rich Tong, Ignition Partners; Stephen Hall, Vulcan Capital)
• OC VC (Marc Averitt, Okapi Venture Capital)
• Occam's Razor (Marc Goldberg, Occam Capital)
• Om Malik on Broadband (Om Malik, Business 2.0)
• Our Man in Nirvana (Robin Bordoli, Mobius Venture Capital)
• Outright VC (Todd Jaquez-Fissori, Siemens Venture Capital)
• Oxyfish (Tom Shields, Woodside Fund)
• Pascalsview (Pascal Levensohn, Levensohn Venture Partners)
• Paulgraham.com (Paul Graham, Y Combinator)
• Permanent Record (Rob Hayes, First Round Capital)
• Punctuative! (Matt Winn, Chrysalis Ventures)
• Reality (Susan Wu, Charles River Ventures)
• Redeye VC (Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital)
• Ross Mayfield's Weblog (Ross Mayfield, Socialtext)
• Salman's blog (Salman Farmanfarmaian, SCP Partners)
• Seeing Both Sides (Jeff Bussgang, IDG Ventures)
• Sense and Cents (George Zachary, Charles River Ventures)
• Sense and Cents (George Zachary, Charles River Ventures)
• SF Venture (Keith Benjamin, Levensohn Venture Partners)
• Six Kids and a Full Time Job (Michael Eisenberg, Benchmark Capital)
• Soaring on Ridgelift (Stu Phillips, Ridgelift Ventures)
• Software Only (Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC)
• Southeast VC (Jason Caplain, Southern Capitol Ventures)
• Startups and angels: along the way to success (Tim Keane)
• TahoeVC (Robert Goldberg, Ridgelift Ventures)
• TechBytes (Jason Ball, London Seed Capital)
• Technofile Europe (Max Bleyleben, Kennet Partners)
• The Equity Kicker (Nic Brisbourne, Esprit Capital Partners)
• The Gong Show (Andrew Parker, Union Square Ventures)
• The J Curve (Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
• The New Normal (Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners)
• The Post Money Value (Rick Segal, J.L Albright Venture Partners)
• The vc in me.... (Raj Kapoor, Mayfield Fund)
• This and That (Santo Politi, Spark Capital)
• This is going to be big. I can feel it. (Charlie O'Donnell, Union Square Ventures)
• Treading the VC Waters (Sagi Rubin, Gemini Israel Funds)
• VC Adventure (Seth Levine, Mobius Venture Capital)
• VC Confidential (Matt McCall, Portage Venture Partners)
• VCball (Steve Brotman, Silicon Alley Venture Partners)
• VCinJerusalem (Jacob Ner-David, Jerusalem Capital)
• VCMike's Blog (Mike Hirshland, Polaris Ventures)
• Venture Again ( Justin Label, Bessemer Venture Partners)
• Venture Chronicles (Jeff Nolan, SAP Ventures)
• Venture Cyclist (Richard Dale, Sigma Partners)
• Venture Explorer (Vineet Buch, BlueRun Ventures)
• VentureBeat (Matt Marshall, Mercury News)
• VentureBlog (Andrew Anker, August Capital and Six Apart; David Hornik, August Capital; Kevin Laws, PacRim Venture Partners; Naval Ravikant, DotEdu Ventures; Martin Tobias, Ignition Partners)
• Ventureblogalist (Rob Finn, Edison Venture Fund)
• VentureInside (Kara Nortman, Battery Ventures)
• WayTooEarly (Howard Morgan, First Round Capital)
• Who Has Time For This? (David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners)
• Will Price Blog (Will Price, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners)