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Suggestions for Angel Investors

Feld Thoughts

I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO of a company I invested in last week introducing him to a bunch of potential customers and partners. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. I generally made about one investment a month when I was active as an angel.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. It should help some entrepreneurs to better access early-stage capital and should allow some angel investors better access to deal flow. It’s hard to be a great lead investor . Both are right.

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Timing Is Everything: How To Secure Early-Stage Funding

YoungUpstarts

Money is constantly on the mind of any entrepreneur: how to raise it, where to invest it, and how to make more of it. Given that mindset, it’s only natural that most entrepreneurs jump at the first chance they get to secure early-stage startup funding. Test the investor market. Instead, approach your fundraising in tiers.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

In short, more and more entrepreneurs are signaling their price expectations earlier in their seed fundraise process. In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: 1. Or, in the case of a convertible note, they’ll explicitly state a valuation cap.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups

View from Seed

I remember talking to one of their angel investors (and also one of my old mentors) about what the company could become and what it would look like if it ever became a really big business. His answer was so simple, and at the time, I kind of dismissed it as the view of an angel investor who didn’t really “think like a VC.”

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The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups

View from Seed

I remember talking to one of their angel investors (and also one of my old mentors) about what the company could become and what it would look like if it ever became a really big business. His answer was so simple, and at the time, I kind of dismissed it as the view of an angel investor who didn’t really “think like a VC.”