Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Often these funds are attempting to build out a reputation or gain exposure to a new vertical. For entrepreneurs, you’re removing a degree of optionality very early in your existence since large funds have outcome goals that might be more restrictive than the full set open to a company backed by angel/seed investors.

Later Stage 95

Later Stage Valuation Semantic Institutional Investors 95

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Great reputation. And they don’t.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

Los Angeles 287

Los Angeles Las Vegas Venture Capital San Francisco 287

Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

FYI – this is tuned towards an individual who is still in the relatively early stages of their career. BTW, once you are an investor, it will serve you well to continue to cement your reputation as one of the up-and-comers that is an established expert in this emerging space. So, here it is.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Due Diligence Deal Flow Early Stage 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2012

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts.

Angel Groups 237

Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Startup 237

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2011

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts.

Angel Investor 217

Angel Investor Angel Groups Early Stage Startup 217

Gust

JULY 1, 2012

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts.

Angel Groups 143

Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Startup 143

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

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. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2010

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts.

Angel Groups 121

Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Later Stage 121

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Some later-stage investors may be tempted to become Sharks themselves and start including structured terms into their own term sheets. Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital. They use the reputation of the other investors as a proxy for due diligence.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

However, even though this is a young industry, I’m going to posit that “early-stage” venture capital as it exists today is broken and in need of reform. Now that’s nothing to snicker over, especially considering that well-reputed and established firms could often have multiple overlapping funds.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. Love the guest post TechCrunch!

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

Some people assert that the later stage investors didn’t make a high enough return. Let me outline the contra viewpoint, which is never expressed openly, but it what I believe gives our industry a bad reputation. Large early stage rounds. • OK, so if you raise $2 million at a $10 million post money (e.g.

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Entrepreneur Warrant Silicon Valley Early Stage 321