Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. Friends and family investors.

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

2010 Net Income: $8 million. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. Gross Margin: 94% –> i.e. for every $1 of revenue Kayak only spends $0.06

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business.

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Angel Investor Accredited Investor Venture Capital Startup 120

Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

There’s a influx of capital to back new funds: crowding funding via AngelList syndicates. high net worth individuals. other venture/private equity shops. Sometimes it feels like it’s never been easier to become a VC but never harder to stay one. family offices. strategic investors (including corporates).

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San Francisco Private Equity LP Syndicate 100

Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. These syndicates are often a bit “underground”, so you won’t be able to find them by researching via Google. From there, you can find various syndicates. Syndicates also know other syndicates.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Convertible Security 48

Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. These syndicates are often a bit “underground”, so you won’t be able to find them by researching via Google. From there, you can find various syndicates. Syndicates also know other syndicates.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Convertible Security 48

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

ANGEL INVESTOR : These are individuals who offer capital to startups in exchange for equity, partial ownership or convertible debt. In order to become an angel investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1 million, an annual income of $200,000 and be accredited by the SEC.

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Syndicate Syndication Software Review Angel Investor 127

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. 2011 Net Income: $1.00 Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. The theory states that all ifnormation is publicy available and it is not possible to earn returns above average on a risk-adjusted basis.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups San Jose Venture Capital 28

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company. million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more. This is a key reason why the average retail investor consistently earns below-average returns.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

We saw over time that our investor group, just like Angel List and most other angel groups, was good at syndication and not so good at leading rounds. As a result, we launched the Fast Track program, which helps VCs and active investors who are HBSAANY members to syndicate rounds with value-added members of our network.

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New York Connecticut Angel Groups Florida 114

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. Dont feel like you have to join a syndicate, though. And they wont dilute themselves unless they end up net ahead.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Such deals may be a net winfor founders, because you get multiple VCs interested in yoursuccess, and you can ask each for advice about the other. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. Any city wherepeople start startups will have one or more of them.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It used to be that the only people who could even get into angel rounds were high net worth individuals that could write at least $25,000 checks—so if someone said they were an angel investor, you could assume this was their minimum check size. — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) February 21, 2019.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Cap Table 102