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Angel Investing: Know (What Motivates) Thyself

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If ROI and asset allocation are the sole objective for an angel investor, then they may be best served investing in late stage startups via secondary markets or investing in a VC fund (if they have access to high quality funds) rather than trying to find and pick a bunch of early-stage startups to invest in.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

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Smoke vs Fire: Handling ?Preemptive? Interest From VCs ? AGILEVC

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Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. Some folks feel you always should, some feel it’s a waste of time and you never should.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 2]

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billion fund (CRV XI), though the firm’s roots were modest (Rick Burnes started CRV back in 1970 with a $4M first fund) and until then CRV had mostly stuck to its knitting of early-stage investing with small-mid sized funds. Like many leading firms CRV used this opportunity to raise a huge $1.2

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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Here’s a slightly perverse scenario… Acme Ventures starts out as an early-stage VC investing in US-based IT companies. But usually what makes a VC partnership great in its early days doesn’t easily translate into other new strategies down the road. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

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What are the implications for other late-stage private companies thinking of making the transition to public markets in the near to midterm future? What’s the impact for early-stage startups? I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets.

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Denouement

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Early stage startups remain focused on unit economics and growth, but mid-late stage companies are now starting to thinking about company level profitability in ways that were uncommon only a couple years prior. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins.

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