Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

As an investor for the past 20 years, I’ve had this happen many times. When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. While it didn’t make me cynical, I calibrated my filters as I slogged through three more very long years between 2004 and 2007.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Partner Database 154

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Then, how has Kenya built its start-up ecosystem?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2017

I was an early angel investor in Harmonix in the mid-1990s, enjoyed the Viacom acquisition of Harmonix in 2007, watched Alex and his co-founder Eran acquire Harmonix back from Viacom in 2010, and then I invested again in the company in 2013 with my partners at Foundry Group. ” – Island, Aldous Huxley.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). I’ve worked closely with Ari for a while and love his candor.

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Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2014

I remember in 2007 when the idea of a super angel appeared, where successful entrepreneurs were suddenly angel investors making 10 or more seed investments a year. Between 1994 and 1996 I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of my first company. I know I’m getting old.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

I interviewed Derek back in 2007 when he was kind enough to share his thoughts on failure. How David and I built a successful company without knowing what a venture capitalist or an angel investor was. How I became an angel investor by acting like an angel investor. Now he has interviewed me.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2012

These five companies — some of them well-known, some not as much — moved their ideas into real-world success and pulled down some serious cash in public offerings or from angel investors. DropBox (Launched 2007). Sapphire Energy (Launched 2007). Startups that are picking up steam: Zaarly (Launched 2011).

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Startup Angel Investor Green Valuation 182

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital' Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But I fear that for most angel investors who invest over the long haul angel investing will not be a profitable endeavor. It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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Silicon Valley Deal Flow Angel Investor Cofounder 306

YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2011

Previously known as UnConference Singapore (in 2007-2009), Echelon has been primarily responsible, over the past few years, for unearthing some of Singapore’s and the region’s most promising technology startup companies. Event Details. Date: June 16 and 17. Venue: University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. Then, I looked at angel investment in the US over the past five years, as reported by the Center for Venture Research , in billions of dollars. US Angel Investment – All Regions. Deals. $$$$.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). But I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders but I can’t see that this extends to angel investors. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Not everybody agreed.

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Angel Investor Cap Table Early Stage Deal Flow 152

Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2020

In fact, many angel investors or venture capitalists look for and respect the lessons learned by entrepreneurs that have survived a failed business. Have you experienced a business failure? Are you currently at risk due to events you cannot control? Not all companies are successful. Your end game could be a failure of the business.

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Angel Investor Entrepreneur Email Marketing 62

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. Given that angels deploy almost as much capital as VCs ($ 22.5 billion for angels versus $ 29.5

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IRR Angel Investor Angel Groups Cofounder 114

Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2012

If you’re looking for angel investors, then I have a resource list for you. Gust.com (pronounced like a gust of wind) is a platform for angel investment, grouping together several hundred angel investor groups and thousands of angel investors. Get into quora’s section on angel investors.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Back in 2007 when Marc and I were angel investors, we read everything we could on the emerging techniques for building products and companies. “I’m a fuckin’ genius, Jimmy Neutron”. Soulja Boy, “The Best”. We were hungry for any information …

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

this post is all about the resilience required to keep going as an entrepreneur, not as an angel investor. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus PageMaker. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2010

I got a note from Nivi, the creator of AngelList , over the weekend saying that he’d put up a special page for angel investors in Boulder. He’s looking for the local Boulder angels to add their names to the list. Evil VC and here’s the answer, the answer is me.&#.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our As a VC, I do not differentiate between a seed investment and any other investment that I make.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today. Liquidation preference is the amount of money that an investor gets paid before the common stock (e.g. management, founders, angel investors) get any money.

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Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Common Stock Dividend 289

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. .

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Since we started in 2007, we’ve done around ten new investments per year. We did about ten investments in 2007, 2008, and 2009 – which, if I remember correctly, is a period of time referred to as the Global Financial Crisis.

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United States Cofounder Angel Investor Government 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). If your favorite angel investor is sending you what looks like a form email it likely is. Be careful not to spend all of your time on inbound. Probably more.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The good news for us engineers (me, by academic training) that favor science over art in valuation is that there is real data out there to justify the returns that angel investors seek. According to the Kauffman study “ Returns of Angel Investors in Groups ”, the mean IRR of angel investments hovered around 27% as of November 2007.

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Employee IRR Startup Mexico 155

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. Lane served as Executive Vice President at Disney for five years before returning to his entrepreneurial roots to become an angel investor and launch FreshGrade. .

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

It’s no secret that access to mainstream credit and lending facilities has dried up significantly since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007. Venture capital and angel investors. Other ways in which a business might look for financial flexibility is through venture capital support, or “angel” investments.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 30, 2015

HL: I get approached on media startups all the time and was an angel investor in Business Insider back in 2007. HW: Social Leverage is your early stage VC fund and even prior to SL, you were an angel investor. If a media entrepreneur approached you for advice on creating Wallstrip 2.0, I have not met many.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Selecting value-added angel investors and advisors can also help with the camaraderie issue, as they can provide advice and counsel during the solitary period of hard-core coding and product development. These are not revolutionary suggestions, just not necessarily those acted upon by first-time CTO / entrepreneurs.

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Growthink Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Specifically, Groupon launched in November 2007 under the name The Point (ThePoint.com is still live today). In my Truth About Funding guide, I have an entire section dedicated to building your Board of Advisors (including my personal email template that I use to secure angels). But specifically, it was based on negative action.

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Washington Stock Options Valuation Angel Investor 95

Transformify

JANUARY 7, 2020

I started working remotely as a freelancer back in 2007, and then became a digital nomad in 2012, traveling to/living in over 120 cities in 50 countries since then. Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify. Neville, lots of people dream of becoming digital nomads but few make the move. About the author.

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Software Review Technical Review Georgia Harvest 81

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

One of my favorite projects from 2007 was a solar power wetsuit. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. This was a collaboration between students in industrial design, electrical engineering and business. ► July. (1). Steve Bennet.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28

Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

What most frustrates angel investors is the “needle in the haystack” nature of picking winners. As for that other traditional pillar for the individual investor – residential real estate – its woes are similarly deep. public stock market long-term woes would be comical if they weren’t so tragic.

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Brazil Angel Investor India China 74