mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start.

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Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). I.e. how has this investor made money before? I can’t speak for my business partner Eric, but he has had a lot more experience with building businesses and side projects with smaller lifetime values.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). I.e. how has this investor made money before? I can’t speak for my business partner Eric, but he has had a lot more experience with building businesses and side projects with smaller lifetime values.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups. From our perspective at NextView, startup pitch meetings should come in two flavors: The first is a conversation. So, we hope these two deck resources can address both issues.

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Seed Stage Startup Seed Capital Audience 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Certainly. Most definitely.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. If you’re an entrepreneur, all else equal you prefer convertible debt because the deal is priced at a later stage when you’re worth more. Great exit. - If you watch the video I go into greater detail.

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Southern California Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Investor 210

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

What distinguishes this deck is that we think it’s designed for the way most seed stage fundraising conversations actually happen. In particular, this is very foreign when you are talking about pitching an angel investor or seed fund, especially if you have done your work to get a good, qualified intro.

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Cofounder Startup Seed Stage Warrant 120

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” This is true, although interest is generally paid in stock upon conversion. Convertible debt? Convertible equity?

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Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134

Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

What I’ve learned from my experiences as a four-time entrepreneur and an angel investor in more than thirty startups is that while it often looks as if world-altering business opportunities emerge by accident, they can, in fact, be discovered and scaled in a methodical way. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

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Cofounder Founder Entrepreneur Venture Capital 66

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Sure, if you’re Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, you can dictate your terms, but last I checked, most of the entrepreneurs First Round and most of the seed stage firms back don’t have that same kind of track record. The investor water cooler occasionally falls victim to reputation racketeering.

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Equity Term Sheet Seed Stage Angel Investor 104

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Might as well cut off our conversation and just restart it 48 hours later on camera for This Week in VC. I had also expressed my concern for SproutBaby’s lack of independence from their partner with Jody.

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Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Venture Hacks Angel List â?? raise money with angel investors. Guide to Super Angels -Â Chubby Brain. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Seed Stage Valuation Guide.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

What distinguishes this deck is that we think it’s designed for the way most seed stage fundraising conversations actually happen. In particular, this is very foreign when you are talking about pitching an angel investor or seed fund, especially if you have done your work to get a good, qualified intro.

Startup 28

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Warrant 28

Rob Go

JULY 25, 2011

Before thinking about investor communication, I go back to the importance of doing due diligence on your potential investor to understand what their expectations are and what their behavior is typically like. My partner Dave blogged more about that topic here. Make investor communications short, but frequent.

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Due Diligence LP Seed Stage Portfolio 38

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110