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. I’ll make my next posting shorter.

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Berkonomics

JULY 16, 2020

Venture or angel-financed companies with plenty of working capital sometimes are immune to this working capital need for some time into their growth, but at some point, it will become clear that the cheapest form of finance is not equity in a growing enterprise. It may not be equity.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2010

My partner Seth Levine has a detailed post up today titled Trada – from the beginning that describes the creation and financing of Trada. Tags: Seed Financing angel financing Foundry Group seed trada VC. The meat of the funding story follows: “Of course coming up with the idea is the easy part.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. At this point, he can grow organically and leverage channel partners and other creative modes of non-equity financing and preserve equity as much as possible. Jimmy asked if he should be raising money at this point.

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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. Andrew also asked how he could partner with the 1M/1M program. peerbackers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners. Angel financing – just because VCs won’t back this kind of business doesn’t mean angels won’t. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 21, 2013

Venture or angel-financed companies with plenty of working capital sometimes are immune to this need for some time into their growth, but at some point it will become clear that the cheapest form of finance is not equity in a growing enterprise.

Covenant 61

Covenant Warrant Dilution Intellectual Property 61