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What Do Angels Want?

ReadWriteStart

In 1998, before they even incorporated, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were trying to present their concept to early-stage, or "angel" investors, with limited success. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was one such angel. So what do angels want? How realistic are your projections?

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

Thursday, April 1, 2010. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJs. was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines.

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Objective Logistics & Keeping Things in Perspective ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

seed round from NextView, Atlas Venture, and Google Ventures, and angel investors. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Objective Logistics just closed a $1.5M Read More ยป.

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Final Close: The Story Behind NextView's Own Fundraise ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We typically lead or co-lead these seed round with other co-investors including other seed VCs, large lifecycle VC firms, and angel investors. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ยป.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

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. ► 2010. (7). Thursday, January 17, 2008.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Frisco has become a hot spot in North Texas for venture capitalists, angel investors, startups, universities, pitch competitions and seed accelerators,โ€ said Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney. โ€œIn In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. all Bay Area firms?โ€”? Texas is hitting critical mass as a global startup hub.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

Thursday, 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 ProfessorVC.