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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops. In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them.

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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. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

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

Agile VC

February 21, 2012. We typically lead or co-lead these seed round with other co-investors including other seed VCs, large lifecycle VC firms, and angel investors. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? 9 July 2012, 1:10 pm Directr – Tell Your Story 30 June 2012, 1:55 am.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

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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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. ► 2012. (1). Thursday, January 17, 2008.

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Where would I go to invest in startups or emerging companies?

Gust

This will be changing next year, however, because of a new law called the JOBS Act of 2012 , which establishes a new, limited type of Crowdfunding for small companies and non-Accredited investors. Once the U.S. So, the bottom line is that this is a great time to start thinking about investing in high growth startup companies!

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Diversification – The Alternative to Market Timing

Rob Go

My friend Jordan Cooper wrote an interesting post a few days ago about some of his predictions of the venture market in 2012. Syndicate diversification. In some seed rounds, we invest mainly with seed investors and angels. So for the most part, we try not to be too dogmatic about syndicate partners.