Building Ventures: the Builder's Handbook
A practical framework for building several startups within one organization
Table of Contents
Building Ventures is a 2019 handbook about one model for creating and supporting several startups within a shared organization.
The book treats a venture builder as an active co-founder rather than a short-term programme or a passive investor. It describes four categories of contribution: control, transfer, motivation, and outsourced operations. Later chapters cover portfolio metrics, financing schedules, founder recruitment, standard processes, idea development, and support through a company’s early stages.
The material combines Taig Mac Carthy’s first-person account of developing this framework with illustrative tables and working recommendations. Personal experience is presented as the author’s account. Hypothetical company names and calculations are examples, not records of actual investment performance.
The online edition also records important boundaries. The model varies between organizations; an invoice does not automatically create an accounting asset; private-company valuations are uncertain; and legal, accounting, tax, employment, State-aid, and investment decisions require current professional advice.
Read it as a practical framework to test against your own agreements, evidence, and constraints, not as a promise that a venture builder will make a startup succeed.
Copyright
Copyright 2019, Taig Mac Carthy, MNI Publishing LLC. All rights reserved.
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