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The Ultimate Guide to Thriving in Startup Investment

The Startup Magazine

The due diligence phase mirrors the challenges of facing Scylla and Charybdis where entrepreneurs must navigate through a path filled with potential obstacles and uncertainties. Post-Investment Success – Becoming a Legend Now that you have obtained investment it is time to establish a reputation.

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Sharp Elbows Among Seed VCs

View from Seed

Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. Instead of broadly syndicated rounds, we are seeing much more competition for fewer slots. Why Is Seed Investing Becoming More Sharp Elbowed?

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How VCs Structure a Syndicate and Recruit Coinvestors

David Teten

The challenge with most such independent investors is that they, quite reasonably, all have their own independent decision-making and due diligence process. Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Market Insight.

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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. Protecting one’s reputation is incredibly important for any investor, whether independent or corporate. We have to respect the due diligence requirements of our parent company, but haven’t found it penalizing.”.

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After the VC Term Sheet is Signed – It’s Not Over Yet

Genuine VC

But it also includes legal due diligence, rounding out the round with additional syndicate investors (often angels in seed rounds), figuring out allocations, as well as sometimes even (but hopefully not) additional business diligence for the institutional venture investors.

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? Prospective LPs evaluating NextView tend to focus their due diligence on conversations with these folks as well as other trusted participants in the startup community that are likely to have a POV on us. 1) How is the portfolio performing?

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect. 5 ] Another danger of less known firms is that, like angels, they haveless reputation to protect.