VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2014

I’ll be speaking at an Impact Angel Group event on February 12th. With a few other angel investors, I’ll be talking to other angel investors, along with prospective angel investors, about the role of impact investing the community, as well as in our own portfolios.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. 2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible. It's not such a bad idea for angel investors either. Do you help adtech startups get traction with brands?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. Access to other investors. Look for ones that communicate early and often.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

The person you want to know who is coordinating the investor introductions is Nick Spiller. He does this all round for the Capital Factory portfolio but this week he’ll be in high gear making hundreds of introductions and arranging hundreds of in-person meetings at Capital Factory. Our goal is to make 1,000 introductions in one week!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

What he gave the community with VentureHacks is a pure gift to the community. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. What about “seed&# investors? What about “angel&# investors?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. On Haywire, Semil Shah shares stories about his investments, giving a behind-the-scenes view on why he’s working with the companies in his portfolio. Above the Crowd. Follow Semil on Twitter @semil.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It’s been awhile since we worked together on a daily basis so a lot was just general catch up, but one of the primary reasons for our chat was that this person was starting to become a more active angel investor and was just looking for feedback. totally passive strategy won’t teach you much).

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2021

The Series A is led by Accel, with participation from Point Nine Capital (who led their seed), Version One, and angel investors. . Tenderly already has deep respect within the Ethereum community, as we quickly discovered during our due diligence. Our portfolio companies Uniswap and Nexus Mutual raved about the platform.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Got a question for one of the angel investors mentioned below? Today is Ask an Angel day! Tips from real angel investors about how to impress them and stand out from the crowd. Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. How Angels Invest.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Creators that are able to grow a community while keeping engagement levels high have a greater opportunity to make a living from their craft more than ever before in history. pic.twitter.com/xtdInea3Tk — Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) April 26, 2021. Creator Funds. Finally, a small plug to Remagine Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s all part of his platform as Portfolio Manager of Fintech Ventures Group (FVG), a Vancouver-based, venture capital company that works with Internet startups and other tech businesses. Michael Patryn: I think the difference between angel investors and venture funding is misunderstood far too often.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Finally, one of Airbnb’s angel investors, who’s very smart and whom I respect a lot, reached out to me and said, “Hey, you should really look at this. This is going to be a drag on the portfolio, this is going to be a waste of time.”. These are really good founders and I think this is an interesting space.”

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund. Why should VCs be any different?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. The challenge is to find the right angel for you, and for your situation. Angel investors are people too. USA Angel Investment Network.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Here are the most common reasons for investing in startups: Potential large returns on investment. Diversification of business portfolio. Business acuity. Enhancement of retirement-related investments. Vision for contributing to societal change. How or Where to Find Investors. Angel Networks.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). s new markets feature, where you can break out specific investors and deals by sub-markets. AngelList is a community.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. AM: Angel investing was our collective gateway to building Coalition.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Jared holds a B.A.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

Earlier this week I gave the keynote address at the Colorado Angel Capital Summit. While the audience was Colorado focused, the overall message I delivered about the angel ecosystem is very relevant to all entrepreneurial communities. The overall trend around angel investing is a pretty interesting one.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. Venture capitalists Have Very Different Objectives than Angel Investors.

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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. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

A strategy for meeting these investors in Austin is to figure out the board schedule of their portfolio companies, as they they will likely travel here for those meeting. It’s also clear from our work that there is some confusion in the entrepreneurial community about the different forms of startup funding available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. The challenge is to find the right angel for you, and for your situation. Angel investors are people too. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. The challenge is to find the right Angel for you, and for your situation. Angel investors are people too. Or does it? Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Most Angels I know get their payback from helping others, not from making money. Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. They bet on the jockey, not the horse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. The challenge is to find the right angel for you, and for your situation. Angel investors are people too. USA Angel Investment Network.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

Depending on the stage of the company, sources may range from FFF (Friends, Family and Fools), angel investors, incubators, startup competitions, grants, crowd funding and off course, VC (though often a last resort in the earliest stages). what about all those portfolio companies? Have nothing to tweet about?

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

>> The 15 Minute Website and Personal Website “Portfolios” – soon anyone will be able to build multiple personal sites with full e-commerce, payment systems, community, social networking, SEO, and big data analytics with no coding and very easy manipulation.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We typically lead or co-lead these seed round with other co-investors including other seed VCs, large lifecycle VC firms, and angel investors. The first of these to exit was recently announced, with Groupon’s acquisition of Hyperpublic , though most of the portfolio will continue to build for a long time.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

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. You can follow us all on twitter via the new hacker-angels list. Delegate and automate.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

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. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

You may think that numbers and locations are the only thing to look out for, but in reality it is best to find the angel that fits you and then your situation. As always, keep these key principles in mind while looking for, and after you find an angel investor. Angels are typically only interested in opportunities local to them.

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