2000 Angel Investor Business Model Web 
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2014
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research. Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.
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This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Just because an angel investor that made tens of millions of dollars gives $50k to a startup, and got 9 of her friends to do the same thing, doesn't mean that company deserves to get a $5 million check. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. stock market."
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market?
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. Letting inertia and stubbornness limit your growth and ability to change your business model was cited as cause for failure almost 1/5 of the time. #8 Now I just need a business model.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). We had the wrong business model.
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