Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S. billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Overall, investors put $7.5

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.    Just this morning,  he called to tell you how enthused he was.   I've seen: A business fall into the hands of a minority investor who controlled the offshore manufacturing.  Good deals do none of these things.  November 2011.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

One of the speakers this afternoon, talking about helping entrepreneurs get ready to present to investors, said something like this: "Instead of letting people who I dont think are investable spend a lot of time on presentations to investors, I just tell them they either arent investable or shouldnt be in business."

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. Was amused to read about Right Side Capital this week.

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