Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. But I digress?—?this

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. The Linked-in IPO valued the company at $8.9

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

The Next Web

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Aside from falling into Snapchat’s bracket of primary audience, he believes the impermanence of disappearing messages truly represents today’s needs for a social network. Having angel investors provide mentorship was crucial in moments when things went bad. Rather, it’s the instinct to forget.

Angel Investor 119

Angel Investor Social Network Audience Internet 119

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Show how your rate of return would be attractive to investors. In preparing it, try to look at your project through the investors eyes. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Xobni “Social plug-in for Microsoft Outlook&# – As Enrique Gutierrez said on Twitter today, Xobni is “ the best damn thing ever for Outlook.&# Here’s the thing. The build “implicit social networks.&# Enter Xobni.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Social Network Angel Investor Chad 265

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Show how your rate of return would be attractive to investors. In preparing it, try to look at your project through the investors eyes. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

I thought about doing this in a top 10 format, but will limit to my top 3 reasons: Misalignment of incentives - As an angel investor I want to do everything I can to help the entrepreneur succeed. There isnt a need to negotiate a number of terms in standard preferred financing documents and legal fees will be less. Steve Bennet.

San Jose 36

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Show how your rate of return would be attractive to investors. In preparing it, try to look at your project through the investors eyes. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. We’re FINALLY putting together the required legal documentation as we incorporate.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Show how your rate of return would be attractive to investors. In preparing it, try to look at your project through the investors eyes. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

AngelList is a website for start-ups, angel investors, and job-seekers. Its goal is to introduce entrepreneurs to investors and simplify the process of early-stage business. You can use this to find various investors for your company that may help you with the entire process like funding, patent filing and much more.

Open Source 73

Open Source Startup Cofounder Analytics 73

Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Unless the entrepreneurs or small-business owners have a pre-existing relationship with the angel investors, they can't try to sell them equity. So, entrepreneurs and small-business owners could target a much wider range of investors—say, for the sake of argument, the 51.7 Critics also see red flags for the investors.

Equity 88

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission Private Equity SEC 88

Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Thought it would be appropriate to share his questions and my answers below related to the topic at hand: The main questions have to do with presentation of documents to VCs. I also typically, write a text document summarizing the assumptions, validation for the assumptions and key metrics. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

Silicon Valley 35

Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital 35

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. As a rule, Kayserian says that Kayweb will take no more than 40% of a company in exchange for development work. But will startups give up a substantial portion of their companies in exchange for that talent? Kayserian believes they will.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Join an existing angel investor group. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

Liquidity Event 224

Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Founder Preferred Stock Startup 40

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . Other investors are using Trello , Basecamp , and Monday for making sure that everyone at the firm knows one anothers’ long-term OKRs and short-term projects.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Join an existing angel investor group. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

Liquidity Event 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

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. Don’t make it sound like a form letter, however, but have your reply and supporting documents ready to go. Look for Your Lead Investor. Angel investors.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Join an existing Angel investor group. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Join an existing Angel investor group. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Join an existing Angel investor group. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Infiltrate the social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and then try to connect face-to-face. Practice your business development skills; you’ll have to be the socially skilled person because many technologists are shy and introverted. .&# Post flyers around the CS labs. Go off-campus to other universities. 10-15/hour.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do you know of any VC or angel investors that are interested in targeting the Hispanic Market? investors like great companies, that’s really the filter. then I learn from them and figure out other ways like paid marketing, social media and specific product flows to help get me more. I would love to present our BP.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

VC Adventure

JANUARY 21, 2014

One of the most annoying things about being an angel investor is filling out the same Accredited Investor Questionnaire over and over again. I’ve made about 200 angel investments and over 50 VC fund investments at this point since 1994 and I’ve filled out some version of this form at least 250 times.

Accredited Investor 95

Accredited Investor Angel Investor Social Network Hosting 95

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. It’s broad, it’s deep, it’s fully functional almost no matter what your need, well documented, debugged, and supported. They’ve tried everything. Fred Bosick.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

For modifications, please edit the original document here. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Scanning / Document Management. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Mavenlink -Â manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93