PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Burt Alimansky TI - Eight Ways to Ruin Your Chances of Raising Venture Capital AID - 10.3905/jpe.2000.319971 DP - 2000 Aug 31 TA - The Journal of Private Equity PG - 78--82 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/3/3/78.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/3/3/78.full AB - While entrepreneurs scrabble like lemmings toward the gateways of venture capital communities, only a small fraction of them are admitted to that particular ocean of capital. There are a number of things that stalwart voyagers can do… and more specifically, not do, that will increase the likelihood that their efforts will be rewarded. This insightful article vividly illustrates some of the fatal faults that can fell the unwary entrepreneur.