View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. 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. Preferably both.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. 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. Preferably both.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. From first hand experience, we certainly felt the market conditions and the funding process was much more difficult than anticipated. This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing. To get access to these investments outside of the major VC centers, you need to proactively market in those geographies beyond bicycle range. Take advantage of social media and emerging platforms such as AngelList.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Hubris , bad CEO decisions (mine) and a fundamental lack of understanding that we were in a “hits-based” entertainment business not in a Silicon Valley technology company were slowly killing us. One day I got a call from my two investors, “Hey Steve, we’re both going to be up in San Francisco, lets grab lunch.”

San Francisco 331

San Francisco Silicon Valley Limited Partner Venture Capital 331

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. Investors see a lot of pitches. The blue boxes identify the corresponding markets for those products. transformation created value in other markets. we had no revenue.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

Valuation 292

Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Eric Ries : Did you have to talk to your investors about it? Fred Turner : I did talk to our investors about it. Well, the financial market right now for raising more money as a sepsis company is not a good place to be. I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny.

Curation 60

Curation Government Los Angeles Partner 60

Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

When we originally conceived of a single platform tying together the world’s entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and supporting organizations , it quickly became apparent that the biggest challenge had nothing to do with technology.

Angel Investor 79

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Venture Capital Finance 79

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms. In a syndicate there is usually a"lead" investor who negotiates the terms with the startup. There is an ongoing debate between investors whichis more important, the people, or the idea—or more precisely,the market.

Angel Investor 63

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 26, 2011

This is the bookend to Mark Suster’s address, “ Getting Funded in a Frothy Market ” (which we posted on Friday). Naval is a very smart entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder of Venture Hacks and AngelList. Indeed, it is chock full of solid nuggets, including the following: “The funding market is extremely bifurcated.”

Silicon Valley 53

Silicon Valley San Francisco Seed Stage Entrepreneur 53