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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJs. was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. An excellent question to ponder as the school year begins, but the answer depends on whether you are looking for a plumber or an angel investor. According to the Center for Venture Research at UNH , there are over 260,000 angel investors. These angels invested $17.6

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

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One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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