need to do more deals. was already planning on doing more deals, but this need was reinforced. First, the simulations show you need to do about twenty deals to guarantee some return given a reasonable distribution of hits. Second, deals create deal flow, and deal flow creates returns. MORE >>

like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships. Email. Ah, email. That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. ” Brilliant! We spend our lives doing it. try to be helpful. MORE >>

Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive.  find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers.  My piddly little funding deal was dwarfed in comparison to the huge M&A deals they were negotiating.  MORE >>

quality of startup deals that I ran across was disappointing. IMHO, there is angel money available in Atlanta for consumer web deals (though not via ATA); it's the scrappy entrepreneurs who are in short supply. The first, which I have been advocating, is that there are not many fundable seed stage deals in Atlanta at the moment.  MORE >>

When you’re starting to network through a venture community you should take the time to meet anyone who is interested in getting to know you. have found that people who decide to join our community have depth, interesting perspective and real soul. Second, you never know who someone in our community might know. MORE >>