Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

This is important for nearly every institutional investor because once you have 25-50 investments being able to “follow” the investments that are working well is critical to making money. People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. These angel investors generally invest $25,000 to $100,000 in a round totaling $250,000 to $1,000,000. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. The Exchange Fund – This allows the entrepreneurs to diversify their founders stock into other portfolio companies stock.

Pre-Money Valuation 284

Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Just as often, however, we’re investing alongside individual angel investors who are participating in the round as well. The Domain Angel.

Angel Investor 128

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 128

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Janvest , a new seed fund of $5 million backed by American angel investors and chaired by the former head of the Mossad (Danny Yatom), saw an opportunity to fill the gap by making offering US-based angel investors the opportunity to tap into the Israeli startup industry. VCs are investing in later stage companies.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

Silicon Valley 293

Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. What do you get when a successful entrepreneur becomes a VC and then starts blogging about his experiences? Hunter is a partner at Homebrew and previously led consumer product management at YouTube.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). Are angel investors just unwitting philanthropists or legitimate entrepreneurial investors? So which is it?

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2020

by Ash Rust , founder and managing partner of Sterling Road. 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.

Early Stage 165

Early Stage Security Angel Investor Lead Investor 165

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.

Equity 87

Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.  Angel Capital Association website. « Does the world need "tough" entrepreneurial coaches?

Burn Rate 60

Burn Rate Angel Groups Seed Stage Startup 60

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. and Path Intelligence.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

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. AngelList is brilliantly designed to make it easy for investors to write checks to entrepreneurs. This list of top angel investors is a good start.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. Pitch to your advisors, to US entrepreneurs, to your colleagues, wife, what not. Practice pitching.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This is probably the single-most important thing to me but as I mention here , it’s probably the number one area that entrepreneurs prepare the least for. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). I.e. how has this investor made money before?

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This is probably the single-most important thing to me but as I mention here , it’s probably the number one area that entrepreneurs prepare the least for. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). I.e. how has this investor made money before?

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

There are essentially two distinct basic strategies for startup entrepreneurs to raise a seed round of capital: Subscription approach – An entrepreneur sets a structure (usually a convertible note) and recruits individual angel investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor.

Syndicate 207

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Certainly. Most definitely.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. Lack of confidence?

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are stuck in the idea stage, and only a few have the discipline and the insight to move on to the execution phase. In fact, as an angel investor, I find that many of the questions in the due-diligence process give me real insight into the maturity of a startup.

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Due Diligence Seed Stage Angel Investor Entrepreneur 120

Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

What I’ve learned from my experiences as a four-time entrepreneur and an angel investor in more than thirty startups is that while it often looks as if world-altering business opportunities emerge by accident, they can, in fact, be discovered and scaled in a methodical way. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

Cofounder 66

Cofounder Founder Entrepreneur Venture Capital 66

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. If you’re an entrepreneur, all else equal you prefer convertible debt because the deal is priced at a later stage when you’re worth more. Great exit. - Finally we covered this weeks deals.

Southern California 210

Southern California Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Investor 210

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

My partners and I wanted to peel back the curtain slightly for those of you who’ve been following our progress, and also acknowledge the help and support numerous folks have provided as we got this new VC firm off the ground. As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund. Best of luck. PMarchetti. Congratulations!

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. innovation in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These help address a common question which we frequently receive from entrepreneurs about how to create startup pitch decks for this crucial financial milestone. For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Pitching NextView? Some Context.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Seed Capital Audience 120

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Recently, several entrepreneurs and investors have asserted to me that they don’t think the terms on a convertible debt deal matter much. Rather, they were just spouting what they believed was conventional wisdom about terms for seed deals. I was perplexed by the statement and asked each of them to tell me more.

Term Sheet 125

Term Sheet Seed Stage Angel Investor Valuation 125

Hippoland

JANUARY 29, 2016

Even though there are a lot of web resources on how to put together a pitch deck for seed-stage companies, most don’t address how many decks you need and for what purpose. Some investors prefer to dive into product questions and others really want to dive into customer acquisition channels and unit metrics.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Angel Investor Entrepreneur Forecast 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Have an account?

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

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. That much, we all agree on.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

seed round from NextView, Atlas Venture, and Google Ventures, and angel investors. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Author howerl.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. innovation in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On Tuesday, we put out two different sample pitch decks that we think can guide entrepreneurs as they try to communicate the information behind their companies. What distinguishes this deck is that we think it’s designed for the way most seed stage fundraising conversations actually happen. After the Meeting.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Seed Stage Warrant 120

Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

In coming months, many entrepreneurs are looking for the best sources to help fund the startups they have planned. Whether the end goal is to exit, be acquired, or have enough in the bank to launch, it’s important for entrepreneurs to find the companies that can help them do it. See Also: What Venture Capital Firms Want.

Southern California 60

Southern California Silicon Valley Venture Capital Early Stage 60