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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. With more competition in early-stage many VCs are investing smaller amounts at earlier stages. Some are going later stage to not miss out on hot deals. I call this “stage drift.&#.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. 2) Market .

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012. That much, we all agree on.

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A primer on convertible notes, convertible securities, and equity

Hippoland

Investors worldwide are familiar with and are used to investing in priced rounds. And as you raise money at later stages, you will most likely be raising equity rounds. Once you find investors who want to invest and agree on the price per share, everyone knows just how many shares they are getting, and everything is clear.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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The Role of Angel Groups Going Forward

This is going to be BIG.

Initially, angel groups were basically setup for two reasons--to connect angels to each other and to pool money for entrepreneurs. An angel belonging to a group could find more dealflow. Since no single angel was going to take up a whole round, it provided for an easy way of finding co-investors as well.