Broadly speaking there are four types of investors on any VC firm’s team: pure investors, operators turned investors, domain experts and jacks of all trades. Investing experience includes investment banking , corporate development and principal investing roles (e.g., venture capital, growth equity, LBO). MORE >>

Almost everybody knows that Ron Conway has invested in a huge percentage of the top technology companies in the world, but entrepreneurs often ask me why Ron would be a good investor for them. Speaking as an entrepreneur, if I were to start a firm today and could only have one investor, it would be Ron Conway. know some n*&%!@ MORE >>

I still get business plans, looking for an investor, that say all too clearly that the first goal of the new business is to do research and development (R&D) on some promising new technology, like superconductivity or cancer research. Technology development. Prototype development. Verification. Commercialization. MORE >>

Here are some of the contributing factors, in my opinion: Angels groups, and some individual angels, are now co-investing in larger deals or later stage companies – a portion of the early stage gap (i.e., $100k 100k – $500K) used to be purely the realm of angels (for a description of angels, see my earlier post ).  MORE >>

In today's funding environment there's a good chance you'll be seeking angel investment. With today's robust funding environment and the impending passage of the JOBS Act and its new crowdfunding rules, there's a strong chance that your start-up will be raising money from angel investors—quite possibly a very large group of them. MORE >>