Michael Arrington wrote an interesting piece today at TechCrunch about how VCs are pissed that great entrepreneurs are taking under $500k of angel money instead of $2m their money. They point out that very few angel funded startups end up very big or interesting. By the way, Maples is now doing super-angel deals. Interesting.). MORE >>

However, many entrepreneurs are missing two key things: An exit strategy. Knowledge of what an exit strategy is. An exit strategy is basically a plan to sell/merge/or otherwise “exit&# your business. How does one GET an exit strategy? Not necessarily in that order). The goal? MORE >>

The most important new data on angel investing comes from Robert Wiltbank of Willamette University and Warren Boeker of the University of Washington. Robert Wiltbank is one of the world's pre-eminent researchers on angel and VC investment. This graph shows what the greybeard VCs and angels have known for a while. MORE >>

During a meal of excellent Osha Thai food in SF, one boutique attorney stated that he has worked on something like 25 early stage financings this summer, mostly involving web startups and angels or super angels (i.e., Now there are signs that things may be (slowly) starting to turn around. as well as the network. Please share it! MORE >>

It's the eve of the New Ventures BC Awards ceremony, and I've just posted the edited video of the last talk in this year's New Ventures Seminar Series: Start at the End - Your Exit Strategy. Some of the highlights: Your exit is the culmination of all the hard work you do as an entrepreneur. Angel group syndication. MORE >>