Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. 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. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). We want to find someone who has a lot of consumer internet product experience as either product manager, founder, VP Product, etc. Then take a year as a product manager in a startup in the firm’s portfolio. People skills.
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David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. It boasts 448 member-managed groups and VCs, 15,414 investors, and 2,400 new company applications a month. One of the most common questions I get is “How do I find angel investors?” Here are three of the largest flocks: Angel Capital Association (ACA).
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
The problem is that this is longer than the average economic cycle , which means you need to be able to manage in good times and bad. It was an investment management class. .&# The reality is that the “big winners&# in business that drive extra-ordinary returns often take 7-10 years to materialize. People buy at the wrong times.
Mucker Lab
AUGUST 27, 2014
After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. 4) Manage deal flow. Talent Relationship Management tools (e.g., 6) Negotiate deal.
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