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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If angel investors are pressuring you to set up a board and if you don’t have the leverage to push back a little then I might suggest a 3-person board in which all 3 seats are appointed by the common stock and you agree to appoint one of these seats to the angel investor but perhaps make it either time based or event based.

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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.

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APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.

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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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JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Robert Scoble has weighed in calling AngelList, “ The New Silicon Valley Hype Machine. &# I’m not sure if that’s how AngelList would like to be branded. That way you can have the best of a fund that has deeper pockets and angels so you can have more people helping. What about “angel&# investors?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But I fear that for most angel investors who invest over the long haul angel investing will not be a profitable endeavor. So I’m going to offer my view on the “angel poker table” so you can decide if you really want to sit there. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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