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. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Here’s why.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. 2) Investors believe that their experience and guidance can maximize their return. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. 2) Investors believe that their experience and guidance can maximize their return. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 13, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups - which because of geography or size of investment typically don't have formal boards or directors - to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Investors believe that their experience and guidance can maximize their return. Here's how.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco. Rock and Davis would raise a $5M fund from east coast institutions and while they invested only $3.4
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