Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

In my experience, venture investors are more focused on percentage ownership, which obviously requires a trade-off with the amount invested and valuation. I had a discussi on with another angel investor a few months ago and he was bragging about the deal he just struck that included a 3X participating liquidation preference.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008. We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. As an angel investor and start-up CFO, I should have a good vantage point. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

I thought about doing this in a top 10 format, but will limit to my top 3 reasons: Misalignment of incentives - As an angel investor I want to do everything I can to help the entrepreneur succeed. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008. Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008. December 17, 2008 11:35 PM. December 18, 2008 9:07 AM. December 27, 2008 11:28 AM. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14).

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Friday, June 6, 2008. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Tuesday, February 12, 2008. February 14, 2008 7:46 PM. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM. April 14, 2008 12:48 PM. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." In how many of those were you a lead investor? Labels: angel groups , Angel Investors , fundraising.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

job existed for every $37,702 of venture capital invested from 1970-2008 Lets assume these statistics are true (of course that may be a leap, as my wise father-in-law used to say, "Figures Lie and Liars figure"). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

An excellent question to ponder as the school year begins, but the answer depends on whether you are looking for a plumber or an angel investor. According to the Center for Venture Research at UNH , there are over 260,000 angel investors. These angels invested $17.6 Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. In the blog, I plan on sharing my opinions (I generally have no shortage of these) on venture capital, angel investing, teaching entrepreneurship, and anything else that strikes my fancy. First post will be about a panel I was on earlier this week with several other angel investors. at 3:10 PM.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. Many companies that have raised capital are going to need to spend it wisely to win and others will be forced to bootstrap. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

A Comparison Between Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs" Her research shows that there is a positive correlation between prior founding experience and new venture performance due to stronger and more diverse social networks, access to capital, reliance on collaborators and other factors. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Professor VC

MAY 6, 2008

Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ▼ 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008. CFOs - More Guardian, Less Angel? The article, " More Guardian, Less Angel " discusses how CFOs add value to angel groups by helping to kill deals. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

His angel investors are tapped out and the VCs arent biting. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? ► January. (1).

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I ran across a couple of blog posts by another angel investor in Card Munch, Ty Danco. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel?

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

Labels: bootstrapping , business plans , entrepreneurship. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? Steve Bennet. at 11:09 AM.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? What does it take to be an Angel Investor? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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