2011 Early Stage Finance Syndication 
View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2021
The reality is that seed investing as a strategy was not a new thing back in 2011, and one could point to multiple prior waves where this sort of investing just didn’t work. That said, we definitely don’t bank on this as a firm, even though we do see ourselves playing a multi-turn game with all of our later stage coinvestors.
Professor VC
APRIL 1, 2010
It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). Labels: Angel Investors , fundraising , term sheets , venture capital , venture financing.
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VC Adventure
MARCH 17, 2016
I’ve talked about this trend before – specifically the acceleration of angel investing in 2011-2014. I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home. I suspect that’s a bit of what we’re seeing here.
Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. ► 2011. (7). Older Post. Twitter Updates.
Professor VC
JUNE 20, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011. Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. ProfessorVC. How much is enough?
Tim Keane
APRIL 12, 2006
What’s your attitude about “next round” financing? this stage when the company can justify a higher. If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. past round one.
Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient.
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