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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

Both Sides of the Table

If you have 8 well known, high quality angels with impeccable reputations then be as transparent as you like. If you have 50 investors on your cap table – I’m sorry but you really don’t know what the f**k they’re telling people about your company or whom they’re tell it to.

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How VCs Structure a Syndicate and Recruit Coinvestors

David Teten

I thought it might be helpful to provide transparency on how we and many of our VC peers think about optimizing the cap table for our companies. . Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Market Insight.

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. We’re not talking about syndicates here, which would mean you’re paying a layer of carry and relying on other people’s deal flow, which is pretty much like fund investing. So is everyone else.

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