Angel Investor Business Model Revenue Silicon Valley 
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 26, 2013
I see now emerging a new wave of investors, popularly known as “super-Angels,” micro-VCs, or “super-seed” investors. Examples of some leaders in this space include Mike Maples in Silicon Valley and David S. Business Week ran a more thorough analysis of this movement a while back, which I have updated below.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 31, 2014
There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. With 317 million people the U.S. It doesn’t.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Unless you are a serial entrepreneur with a string of successes behind you, you need a business plan to convince investors that you can build a business out of the dream that has been driving your passion to change the world. Provide details on the business model and cash flow.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
That is to say, they’d want to be able to control costs and revenues at a high level. Takeaway lesson: There’s a reason that private equity companies tend to concentrate their early-stage investments among Ivy League graduates in Silicon Valley, and that reason is reduced risk.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2013
Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Super-angels. This usually involves more attention to organizational, operational, and strategic challenges. Osmosis marketing. Gamification.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2010
When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. The VC business took off with the rapid growth of the semiconductor business. Lean Angels. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.
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