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Startup Capital: Feast or Famine?

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According to the Center for Venture Research, The Angel Investor Market in 2010 was about $20 billion and funded about 60,000 companies, with about one-third of that capital committed to seed/startup stage companies. Total angel funding in 2010 was up somewhat, but has ranged from $15 to $20 billion for several years.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

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Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. peerbackers.

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A "Rich-vs.-King" Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations

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King&# Approach to Term Sheet Negotiations Posted on August 20, 2010 by fnazeeri I feel like I’m in that scene from The Jerk where Steve Martin sees his name in the phone book and exclaims, “I’m somebody!&# Migrating…lots of broken stuff → A “Rich-vs.-King&# I’m published (sorta)!

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

In a typical venture financing, there is a voting agreement that governs how specific board seats will be filled. In angel financings, I typically eliminate the voting agreement anyway and simply have a closing condition that the board consist of certain persons. The Series Seed documents were released in March 2010.

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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. ► 2010. (7). We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. This got me thinking about my role in helping companies grow up. Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Way.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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Tamer Salama says: August 14, 2010 at 11:32 am Thank you for your great posts. Tamer Salama says: August 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Thank you for your great posts. Ryan Roberts says: August 20, 2010 at 9:41 am Thanks for the kind words, Tamer. Ryan Roberts says: August 20, 2010 at 4:41 am Thanks for the kind words, Tamer.