Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. we are not going to invest.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. However, Boston is a transient town, especially for the student population that refreshes a large population each year.

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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.). Paul Graham on how to be an angel investor. I’ll also include a few links below with some other perspectives.

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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.). Paul Graham on how to be an angel investor. I’ll also include a few links below with some other perspectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

A lot is happening because we have deployment platforms, code platforms, and now we have capital platforms like angellist. The top 10-15 we manually review. We are working hard on features to help angels screen the founders and check their background. Rick – I’m a Boston-based VC. In your case, come to Boston.

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Developer Silicon Valley Software Review Mexico 103

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. First Round Review. Andrew Parker is a VC with Spark Capital in Boston. A Smart Bear.

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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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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I also reviewed the TechStars documents last year and they are similar in concept to the Y Combinator documents as the chart below indicates.). If you really want to understand the nuances in venture capital financing documents, please review the NVCA model venture capital financing documents. . under $500K). Legal opinion.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. Our startup made software for making online stores. We knew that ifonline shopping ever took off, these sites would have to be generatedby software, so we wrote some. Itsintrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). If you’re in New Haven, you may have to go up to Boston. If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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