Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. we are not going to invest.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g.,

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. After all, we were selling a Software as a Service platform and with it came a guarantee of success with our software through the services we coupled with it. He also assisted greatly in sales. Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research. Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO. 2/ The Pricing Pressure Of Going Public – Not to suggest Qualtrics was under any pressure whatsoever (it was not), but the pressure of preparing for IPO forces a company’s share price to fall within an acceptable range on the day of IPO.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. HW: Anyone who’s been through an IPO, I always like to ask about the experience because it’s such a classic, if statistically rare, startup milestone.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

this post is all about the resilience required to keep going as an entrepreneur, not as an angel investor. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. he was the seed investor there. But I digress?—?this Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO? Acquia, Inc. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Because they are open source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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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. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

many new angels spawning from Google, Facebook, etc. angel investors are supporting these early unqualified launches; many are F&F/parents who believe in the dream. amazing shining examples of success and IPOs, even though they a 1 in a thousand. many more people are learning software development. millionaires.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. The advantage of commodity software stacks drops initial startup costs for Internet Commerce companies. Lean Angels. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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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. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Noah Parsons, COO at Palo Alto Software says, “If you’re in Silicon Valley and/or building any kind of tech startup, it’s considered the norm to offer equity as part of a compensation package.”. “If Offer equity if you plan for your company to grow quickly, or if you’re seeking investment from VCs or angel investors.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. Mega VC, Micro VC.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This growth is reflected in investor sentiment; according to RusBase , in December e-commerce businesses accounted for the largest growth in VC deals, with an increase of 33 percent. This was closely followed by software, multimedia and games, which all grew at 22 percent. Since the date of the IPO, the company has tripled in size.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

So I think the first thing on how most deals are structured, so when you are a angel investor and you're investing a small amount of money, and typically you'll invest through a platform like AngelList or a local Angel Association mm-hmm. , Ben Young (07:50): Yeah, good question. Like it was still a long time to to hold.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

2 likes ohno 460 days ago If any of these 10 questions are new to you, you will probably be losing every penny of your “angel investment&#. After that, an IPO or FPO will decide who owns portions of your new USA based company. Your Money Questions Answered Mint.com on 07/07/2010 0 comments How Much Should I Tip?

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Those who still need additional funds may turn next to angel investors , high-net-worth individuals who are willing to provide funding for small startups and entrepreneurs. The goal of venture funding is to get a very high return, usually in the form of an acquisition of the startup or IPO.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

Aptly to the point, Basil is the author of a great book – “ Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors.” They were all Sequoia and/or Kleiner investments that became mega-successful IPOs. His blog is one of the best resources on technology investing out there. Here's why: You, Mr. or Ms.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Raising Money – you are constantly doing this, preparing for this and thinking about this, whether it’s pre-seed, seed funding, debt, revenue, partnerships, IPO or other. When you’re the CEO of a startup, a real startup with product and some cash in the bank and/or revenue, there are 3 FULL TIME JOBS.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases. Brian Kasser most recently led the global Software and SaaS Practice for Russell Reynolds Associates, based in Palo Alto. We know the scrappiness and the elbow grease required.

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Transformify

JULY 19, 2019

Their company has now returned profits for 10 consecutive years and is eyeing an IPO in 2019. Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify. Trusted by recruiters from 150+ countries, Transformify offers an integrated solution comprising of HR Software, freelance platform and billing & payments.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

From software and hardware design to advanced manufacturing, Texas is fertile ground for innovation, investment, business starts and smart job growth. Frisco has become a hot spot in North Texas for venture capitalists, angel investors, startups, universities, pitch competitions and seed accelerators,” said Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney. “In

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

How can other regions will ever match the MACHINE: Stanford, Andreesen, Draper, Valentine, Doerr, Facebook/Apple/Google Millionaires, 4 Generation VC firms, Hardware/Software partnerships, over 100 Billon $ market cap cos. This foundation still drives the area and the world, even thought it gets less attention now than the software side.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Since 1994, Conway has been doing angel investing in solely internet software. He is one of six people for SV Angel, which is on its third fund of $30M. IPO, aquisition), they typically own 0.5% In fact Conway has been doing it for such a long time and so prolifically that he has revolutionized the angel business.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. This story originally appeared on his blog.) Most people start their first company while they still have a day job. This clause is fair.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

If your friends or family happen to be rich, the line blurs betweenthem and angel investors. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. both in the “picks and shovels” space of digital retail with very compelling software solutions.

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