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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

On May 2nd and 3rd, I led workshops for about thirty Estonian investors on syndication, due diligence, valuation and the post-investment relationship with entrepreneurs. That same afternoon, FiBAN organized a two-hour workshop on Due Diligence in the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Governance. Typically 1-3 months of due diligence. Most Flexible VCs lead rounds and often take 100% of the round to mitigate this risk. Profitable or backed by large VC fund. Time required to invest.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. The best corporate investors strive to move fast even in the face of more complex approval and due diligence processes imposed by their parent companies. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub.