Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence Seed Stage 128

Rob Go

MARCH 5, 2012

One area of fundraising that is not that straightforward is how to put together a syndicate of investors for your seed round. It can be a little puzzling for entrepreneurs to make sense of this, especially since the landscape of seed investors is emerging and different seed investors act quite differently from one another.

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Syndicate Syndication Lead Investor Due Diligence 49

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

I think what we’re really seeing here is market excitement around angel investing leading to a quick surge, followed by (I hope) a more normal and sustained level of activity. I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Colorado 48

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This week, we helped organize an Angel Bootcamp where some of Boston’s most successful angel investors shared their experiences and lessons learned to a crowd of aspiring angels and entrepreneurs. The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence Liquidity Event 66

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product. We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company. Does our strategy still resonate?

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Seed Stage Early Stage Due Diligence Liquidity Event 69

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Each has a process in place to accept applications or recommendations for investment into new companies, and to review these and make decisions based upon their exploration, previous experience in the field, knowledge of the company or industry, or about individual entrepreneurs. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups.

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62

VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

In it, he describes our philosophy around seed investing and differentiates it from what others (but not everyone) in the market is doing. This mapped with some of the ideas Niel was thinking about as well and over a series of months we tossed around a number of different ideas in search marketing.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence SEM 74

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2013

What they’ve found is that it’s reasonably effective to hang-around-the-hoop as a deal is coming together, and pounce once a high-quality syndicate seems to be forming. I’ve often heard entrepreneurs remark positively about the speed of great funds. Some funds continue to do high-velocity, passive seed investments.

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Seed Stage Due Diligence Early Stage Syndicate 53

Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor. If they’re making it as part of a group that the entrepreneur likes, fine. If they are “solo,” though, the entrepreneur will want to know a lot about their attitudes and expectations, especially when things go wrong. What is your due diligence process?

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Entrepreneur Valuation Sweat Equity Common Stock 60

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million and is established by negotiations between the entrepreneur and the angel investors. Diversification across industry sectors is not as easily achieved for angels as could be accomplished in public markets, but can be achieved by co-investing with trusted angel colleagues in a broader set of businesses. TARGETCOMPANY.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing. Detailed due diligence. To get access to these investments outside of the major VC centers, you need to proactively market in those geographies beyond bicycle range. Profiled initially. Target Selected.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

Each has a process in place to accept applications or recommendations for investment into new companies, and to review these and make decisions based upon their exploration, previous experience in the field, knowledge of the company or industry, or about individual entrepreneurs.

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 92