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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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I always wanted to have Dan on This Week in VC with Dan Primack ( to see video click link ) because he’s blunt, honest, opinionated and well informed. Too many people have been burned in past and if angels get burned that will kill a lot of needed early investors. That’s thanks to Dan Primack , founding editor.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad.

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What Angel Investors Look For: Facts Vs. Truths

Growthink Blog

What does this mean in terms of number of companies funded by angels, and the number of angel investors? Well, the study estimated that 26,300 entrepreneurs received angel funding during the first half of 2011. And the number of angel investors who funded these companies: a whopping 124,900 individuals.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

But now you can learn the origins first hand on this YouTube video as well as how to approach them, how they make decisions and what innovations they've introduced. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla!

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Here’s the video (each talk is 7 minutes long): Video: AngelConf 2010. Dec 26, 2009).

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