Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio. Also, later when you need a larger round of venture capital, the same preparation will serve you just as well, so you might as well learn now how to fly with the angels. A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. They may decide to acquire the startup in order to hire the team for another project in their portfolio. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Super Angels are individuals or small teams using their own money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

David is one of the most active angel investors in New York, and also the CEO of Gust , which is an online platform for startup financing used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors, 1000 angel groups and venture capital funds, and 200,000 entrepreneurs. billion collected in 2014. What ends up, usually went down first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Also, these peers are now your competition in a portfolio ranking, so you need to know to stay ahead of them in the pack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2014

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Angel and venture capital money always comes with strings attached, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Angel and venture capital investors rarely just give you the cash, and stand back to wait for you to spend it the way you want. Your startup is now part of someone’s portfolio, and here are a few of the ways in which you should expect to be monitored by your investors: One or more seats on the Board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Angel and venture capital investors rarely just give you the cash, and stand back to wait for you to spend it the way you want. Your startup is now part of someone’s portfolio, and here are a few of the ways in which you should expect to be monitored by your investors: One or more seats on the Board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2015

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Also, these peers are now your competition in a portfolio ranking, so you need to know to stay ahead of them in the pack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This is a relatively new term loosely applied to angels who invest their own money in a portfolio of startups (typically 20 or more) and are willing to lead multiple rounds, usually starting with a seed round. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. Both provide incubator services and space for early startups, have patent portfolios for licensing, and many other resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Since Angel investors put money into 60 times as many companies as venture capital funds, according to Wikipedia, early-stage startups need to focus first on the key thresholds that drive these investment decisions. The same hold true for venture capital investors. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

Luckily for me (and regardless of what anyone else says, there is a lot of luck involved in angel investing), I have since had significant positive exits to companies like Kodak, CBS and Facebook, and the current value of my portfolio is approaching the 30% IRR that rational angels target.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

It was developed by Joe Abraham , who manages a portfolio of successful high-growth international companies. Venture capital investors have the resources to travel to entrepreneurs with high potential. You can even check your own DNA with his self-assessment against the four key types: Builder.

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