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Pick Your Investor With Care - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.   Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.    Deals that were put together so poorly that the entrepreneur had little room to work. 

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Startups With Real Revenue Can Get Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

This is probably the very first group that an entrepreneur who is starting out may approach for some funding for his or her idea. The founders of these uVC funds are entrepreneurs in their own right – either as people who have founded successful startups before, or as the founders of their own venture funds – which are also startups.

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Who Gets To Break The News That Your Puppy is Ugly? - Startups.

Tim Keane

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." And so forth.

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ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

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.