Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. And so Buzzkill Suster continues. It is the new cocktail party conversation.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. One of the primary ones is the referral source.
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www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So One reasonstartups prefer series A rounds is that theyre more prestigious.But if angel investors become more active and better known, theyllincreasingly be able to compete with VCs in brand.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Her answer? ‘I
Tim Keane
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Reducing Startup Risk: A Video Comment » September 21, 2006. There isnt anything in it for the investor to tell them, especially if the entrepreneur(s) are in sales mode.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.
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. We talk about all of this in the video. I hope that I at least defended Bryce’s point-of-view in the video (and in my previous post). My personal concern is for that of the inexperienced angel.
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