Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Obstacles are abundant, including the scarcity of warm introductions, enough traction to satisfy investors, and unending due diligence requirements. You can find these in your professional circle and your sphere of influence, rather than angel groups and venture capitalists.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Angel investors come from a variety of ages, backgrounds, and professions. I’m not your average angel. I’m not active in an angel group. I live in a small town surrounded by farms and I made my first angel investment at 29 because my dad said it was a good idea. So, who are these unlikely angels?
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Up and Running
JULY 2, 2014
We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. We soon got interest from an angel investor, and he wanted to invest $300,000 in our startup. My business partner and I were elated.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 5) Due diligence. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Talent Relationship Management tools (e.g.,
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. National Venture Capital Group endorsed it. Some Angel groups endorse it. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report.
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Sometimes, the family hires some really fantastic people to run the investment of their assets. In fact, one of my largest investors from a family office were former private investment people themselves, and their due dilligence was off the charts. Angel groups started dropping their application fees or making them minimal.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. I personally use Salesforce.
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