Early Stage Networking Silicon Valley Syndication 
View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
For the last several years, the early stage investing market was driven largely by the F ear O f M issing O ut, AKA FOMO. My prediction is that FOLD will permeate through the early stage investing landscape and have some pretty broad effects. Conveniently, this forms a handy acronym as well – FOLD.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? How best can European startups land VC funding in the US / Sillicon Valley? It’s likely that the investors don’t know you, so try and find warm intros from people in your network.
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Agile VC
JULY 11, 2012
Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Greycroft is an early-stage VC. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood. They are typically among the top quartile performers.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage. link] dazhi chen.
View from Seed
AUGUST 26, 2015
Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in. There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing.
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