Below are interesting articles or podcasts that may help you understand venture capital and or the process to meet and pitch venture capitalists. Many of these articles were also used in the development of the Brain’s Guide to Venture Capital.

If you’d like to suggest additional articles on venture capital that you feel would be helpful, please email us with the link and why we should include it to info(at)chubbybrain.com.

1. 10 steps to catch VC cash - Show your passion (1) - Small Business

2. 7 business plan superstars - Pest control pros take the bait (1) - Small Business

3. Angel Capital Education Foundation

4. Angel Investor Tip: How to meet important people in Silicon Valley - Thomas Korte

5. Angels vs. Venture Capitalists : pmarca

6. Bank Lending to Small Business: Are They or Aren’t They? - Independent Street - WSJ

7. Bank Loans for Small Businesses | Banking & Finance > Banking, Lending & Credit Services from D&B Small Business Portal

8. Banks and Small Business Lending | The New Rules Project

9. BootStrapMe: 10 reasons for a bare bones business start-up

10. BootStrapMe: What is bootstrapping?

11. BOOTSTRAPPING - the Most Common Source of Initial Equity for Entrepreneurial Firms

12. Briefing.com: Learning Center - Scalable Business Models

13. business - Bootstrapping Your Startup

14. Definition Capitalization Table

15. Entrepreneurship.Org - A free, online international resource designed to help build entrepreneurial economies - Entrepreneurship.org

16. Global Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory – Ranked By Monthly Uniques « Thinking About Thinking

17. How Angel Investing Is Different Than Venture Capital

18. How long does it take to close a Venture Capital deal

19. How Venture Capital Works - Harvard Business Review

20. Invention to Venture Glossary

21. MIT Enterprise Forum - Mindshare - All Financing Sources Are Not Equal

22. National Venture Capital Association

23. Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources (Open Library)

24. Pretending to be small - Apr. 11, 2008

25. Private Equity and Venture Capital Glossary of Terms

26. Regulation D Offerings

27. Regulation D Resources - Capitalize Your Vision

28. Small-Business Credit Sees Thaw - WSJ.com

29. Venture Capital 101: Raising Venture Capital Guide | MoreBusiness.com

30. Venture Capital Basics

31. Venture Capital Deal Algebra

32. Venture Capital Investment by Funding Stage

33. Venture Capital Loses Its Vigor - NYTimes.com

34. Venture Capital Resources

35. Venture Capitalist/ Investor

36. Venture Capitalists Oral History Project

37. Who Made America? | Innovators | Georges Doriot

38. WR Hambrecht + Co: Private Investments: Glossary