Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs, and a former angel myself, I still find startups confused about the definition of an angel investor, and how and when to attract one. Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples. Thus they don’t live or fly above the clouds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Most share expertise as well as money.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. By definition this means others will doubt you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

A micro venture capital firm. Micro-VCs, by definition, are firms that invest institutional money (meaning other people’s money) in projects that are at the seed stage or are too small to attract the attention of more traditional venture capitalists. A “genesis” venture capital round.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In my third seed deal we co-invested with a seed fund and then syndicated the rest to strategic angels.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

So, let’s start with some definitions. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. What is a Podcast? and broadcast. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

A couple of items buried in the 1300 page bill include changing the definition of an accredited investor and moving regulatory roles on private3 placements from federal to stage level. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Venture News. Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Mike Markkula presenting Steve Jobs with first investment in Apple I recently watched an excellent documentary on PBS, Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists. However, I view pari passu as a more intrinsic definition that goes beyond simple legal definitions.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 My Investments.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

With the new fund K9 Ventures will be able to invest between $250K – $750K as an initial investment in the companies we back. K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

With the new fund K9 Ventures will be able to invest between $250K – $750K as an initial investment in the companies we back. K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

So, let’s start with some definitions. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. What is a Podcast? and broadcast. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2013

” I’ve been thinking a lot about deal selection in Venture Capital , so this meme is particularly interesting to me. By definition, this means that they will work harder to build conviction around an opportunity and move more slowly. Here’s what I make of it. This is good in some ways, but bad in some ways.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

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. Once you raise venture capital, you are forced on a path to spend ahead of the business and seek the highest growth business model options.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Furthermore, angel groups frequently syndicate (co-invest) with neighboring angel organizations in an effort to help fill round of investment for local companies and assist members in diversifying their portfolios with investments in nearby regions. – Need venture capital. Another angel round. Positive other factors.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

While VC firms have been easy to find from the old school days of Pratts Guide to Venture Capital , to the early web presence of the 1990s and the current web sites, blogs, twitter feeds, facebook fan pages and sites such as The Funded , angels are still a bit harder to track down. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. Generally speaking, the European venture capital community is more likely to commit larger investments in more mature companies.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

It was a great product addressing a large market opportunity and was interested in seeing how the AngelList syndicate process worked. Due to confidentiality provisions, I can''t disclose details, but there are many very unhappy participants who invested through the syndicate. Syndicates can either be company led or investor led.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. You can find groups near you through the Angel Capital Association. [ Venture Capital Funds VC firms are like seed firms in that theyre actual companies, butthey invest other peoples money, and much larger amounts of it.VC Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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