Demo Management Syndication Venture Capital 
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. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. Hedge funds, other public investors, corporates, etc. Their money works the same way as mine does.
Professor VC
APRIL 1, 2010
This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Lobbying is ongoing by both the National Venture Capital Association and Angel Capital Association and James Geshwiler on the panel wrote a recent post on the ramification. Are DEMO's days numbered?
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This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 29, 2010
One thing that Chris Fralic and I have been tossing around is the lack of a retailer centric play—where individual retailers can run their own group buys, manage discounts across various sites, run local campaigns across Foursquare, Facebook fan pages, etc. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.
Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Venture News.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account.
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. Are DEMO's days numbered? Venture News.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. You can find groups near you through the Angel Capital Association. [ When they demo it, one of theangels is willing to invest.
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