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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. Hardika intends to build a financial institution focused on this segment with financing from social entrepreneurship oriented venture funds like Unitus. million financing round for.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

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The last blogger in Silicon Valley. One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing. Newer Post.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. Bootstrapping 101. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. ProfessorVC.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. Labels: angel groups , angel investing , entrepreneurial finance course , Super Angels.