Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Andrew Parker is a VC with Spark Capital in Boston. But, he also has great advice on growth strategies for early-stage companies. Funding a Business Venture Capital and Angel Investors advice blogs funding venture capital venture capitalist' Follow Jalak on Twitter @jalak. The Gong Show.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He is an ecommerce innovator with first Coremetrics and then Bazaarvoice, a very active angel investor, and currently Founder and CEO of data.world. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. Edwards University.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Sources of Capital for Startup Entrepreneurs – The primary sources of cash for new companies are (1) self (the entrepreneurs’ resources), (2) government grants, (3) friends and family, (4) angel investors and Super Angels , (5) venture capitalists and (6) strategic investors.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest. Time: 12:30PM?—?

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. Certain angel investors refuse to do convertible debt deals, but will be okay if there is a price cap. 10K to investor counsel.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. BoxGroup is an investor in companies like Boxee, Flavors.me, Goodsie, fab.com, art.sy, Coursekit, Skillshare, GroupMe, DataMinr and many more. You can reach Mr. Tisch at Tisch@techstars.com and @davetisch.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The goal was to mobilize and educate the angel community in Boston to become more comfortable and more active investing in early stage internet, mobile, and software companies. We have a packed schedule, and one of the most outstanding speaker lists I’ve seen in a long time.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

But whether you are trying to build daily, habitual products for business users like Slack or InVision or trying to reach truly mass market consumers like Wayfair, Jet, or Chewy, there is someone in the Guild who has faced this challenge at the early stages of a business and at scale. Jared holds a B.A. Back to Top). Back to Top).

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

We had programs in Boulder, Seattle, Boston, and New York. David was now visible as a highly desired angel investor across the country. Be partners now in the VC fund and ramp up to raise a much larger early stage fund, rather than just a seed fund.”. David: “How much do you think I should raise for my next fund?”.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Since then, Ive been involved with creating and funding hundreds of companies both as an angel investor and a VC (now at Foundry Group). We’ve done this through our seed investments as well as through our activity at TechStars, starting in Boulder, then expanding to Boston, Seattle and New York.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing. Paul Graham on how to be an angel investor.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing. Paul Graham on how to be an angel investor.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels (1 month ago). 5 Reasons An Angel Investor Will Walk From Your Deal (1 month ago). It is likely that a lot has been written regarding NDAs from an investor’s/VC’s perspective.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Kevin – different angel investors put money in things that they are passionate about. Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston. Learn how they attract investors, partners, recruiting. Learn how they attract investors, partners, recruiting. Join a startup.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor the Dutch outperform the EU big five in terms of early stage entrepreneurial activity. So we have plenty of economic clustering. We need a center of gravitas.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

If your friends or family happen to be rich, the line blurs betweenthem and angel investors. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. Angel Investors Angels are individual rich people.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 19, 2013

Cash, Cash, Cash. A different way to improve your cash situation is the indirect one – reduce Friction Costs in your ecosystem with peripheral influencers.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Building a Portfolio - Problems With Current Solutions Admittedly, a portfolio approach to private equity is much easier said than done for the individual investor. The 3 traditional methods of early-stage private equity diversification all have significant drawbacks: 1. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Building a Portfolio - Problems With Current Solutions Admittedly, a portfolio approach to private equity is much easier said than done for the individual investor. The 3 traditional methods of early-stage private equity diversification all have significant drawbacks: 1. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

The Food+City Challenge Prize is an international competition among early stage business startups encouraging innovation in the urban food system. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As an entrepreneur with multiple startups I founded; as CEO or senior executive of several small companies that either were public or went public; as an investment banker for dozens of small business clients; as an angel investor in various startups and small business opportunities. Angel investors rarely invest more than $50-100K.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

One of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. We have seen this first-hand, with some of our best investments being located outside of the hub geographies, e.g., Cornerstone On Demand in Los Angeles.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels (1 month ago). 5 Reasons An Angel Investor Will Walk From Your Deal (1 month ago). Combating the Innovators Dilemma – HubSpot’s Experiments Framework (3 weeks ago).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

When you’re talking hiring for startups, the two are actually pretty similar—because joining a super early stage startup is essentially like getting married. No, it wasn’t how good my angel investors were or how much I could afford to pay her. Tried RPI, Cornell, Boston, or DC yet? Hiring is hard. So is dating.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ► July. (1). ► June.

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