View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. However, in a FOLD environment, it’s likely that the pendulum will swing the other way.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. 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. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Why is it valuable?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Instead it came down to the simple question of “how can you get angel investors and venture capital funds to join and use the platform?” Therefore, in conceiving Gust, we recognized that the overwhelming priority had nothing to do with technology or features or buzzwords.

Angel Investor 79

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Venture Capital Finance 79

Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." In how many of those were you a lead investor? Venture News.

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