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Super Angels Are A Boon To Startups Needing Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the new class of Super Angels, who may look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs.

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The reality of Profitably raising money from angels and VCs in New York

David Teten

for Profitably , a provider of small business analytics. Adam was one of our star students from the first class in New York, when Profitably was just Adam, a Powerpoint, and a really amazing domain name. Adam Neary wrote an unusually open post about his experience raising $1.1m

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the business model is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel? Venture Hacks.

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ProfessorVC: What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

Professor VC

However, that is not always the case as there is no qualification to set out your shingle as an angel investor or form an angel group. I often wonder if saying you are an angel investor is the 21st century version of being a consultant in the early 1990s after the corporate layoffs, a euphemism for someone without a real job.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. See you next time.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.