Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. Keiretsu Forum.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. while none of the non-Silicon Valley regional firms were long-term successful as regional firms. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. Right sized : I tried to work with one of the best known firms in Silicon Valley. My piddly little funding deal was dwarfed in comparison to the huge M&A deals they were negotiating. I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 12, 2013
Since he wasn’t from Silicon Valley, he decided to use his time up here networking with other meetings with VC’s and company executives. I get several hundred emails a day, and a good number of them are “I want to have coffee with you to bounce an idea off.” Or, “I just want to pick your brain.” Perfect World.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
As a member of the selection committee on one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. You can then begin your application to one or more of these organizations right on the same screen.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. .&# Order Here. Now In Print!
ReadWriteStart
JULY 28, 2011
One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written a blog post called Too Much Money, Too Few Deals. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.
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