Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2009
I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. Surround yourself with great advisors or other entrepreneurs.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 25, 2011
There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. It is advice I give entrepreneurs often as I have written here on why most businesses should never raise VC.
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ReadWriteStart
JULY 21, 2011
Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. peerbackers. Quipu Applications.
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 16, 2010
As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Financing, that is.I Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. Series B and the $5M Series A , there were angels writing checks with many less 0s. ProfessorVC. Monday, June 20, 2011. How much is enough?
Gust
OCTOBER 26, 2011
This is the norm for West Coast deals, but it’s often the case in dealing with East Coast investors (more commonly for VC financing rounds rather than angel seed rounds) that the lead investor wants its lawyers to draft the documents.
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