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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. I let him know that he just accomplished two things - left a bad taste with the entrepreneur and opened the door for the next investor to ask for a multiple preference that is senior to yours.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

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. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

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. While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc. Steve Bennet.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups. One of the issues in angel group investing is that any one group often doesnt have the investor interest level to provide the total capital required for a round. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. ► September. (1).