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10 Recommendations For Aspiring New Venture Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The best known ones, like YCombinator , started by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

I think I’ve only come across the NVCA forms a couple of times, and both times were on deals with Boston-based company counsel, where use of the NVCA documents is more widespread. I’ve read the WSGR form Series A documents hundreds of times (and probably have most of the provisions memorized).

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The Advantages of Being an Angel (vs. a VC)

Rob Go

This week, we helped organize an Angel Bootcamp where some of Boston’s most successful angel investors shared their experiences and lessons learned to a crowd of aspiring angels and entrepreneurs. It was a terrific event with some really unique content and stories.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The best known ones, like YCombinator , started by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer.

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10 Steps To Investing Successfully In New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

Both Sides of the Table

He talked about a unique model where you don’t have to become liquid in venture capital and can target singles & doubles. VC can’t don’t invest in these kinds of companies because they can’t get out (no liquidity event). New company in Boston with a model called “royalty capital.”

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Proceed With Caution Selecting Startup Investments

Startup Professionals Musings

The best known ones, like YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which can make your investment less risky. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer.