YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2014
2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. Continuing into 2014, there will likely be a shift in the role of the investor into a more hands-on player in businesses. by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession. For those would-be entrepreneurs debating the startup leap?
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 11, 2015
2014 was a great year for Homebrew (or at least I *think* it was – check back in 10 years and I’ll tell you definitively). But rather than just viewing it as transactional, we approach it as a mutual decision where founders and Homebrew are trying to decide if we’d be great partners.
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Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 1, 2013
This morning my partners at Foundry Group and I announced that we are going to make 50 seed investments of $50,000 each on AngelList between now and the end of 2014. Foundry Group ) can create the syndicate in the future, at which point we’ll move the activity over to there. When we learn, we’ll share what we learn.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 6, 2014
This morning we announced that we have closed a financing in OnTheGo Platforms via our FG Angels syndicate. On October 1st, 2013 we announced that we’d be forming an AngelList syndicate called FG Angels and making 50 seed investments through AngelList by the end of 2014. would come from syndicate participants.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 12, 2014
Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/03/2014. Solicit venture capital investors.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2014
I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you. Have conviction.
Hunter Walker
MAY 19, 2014
It’s a really interesting development – if ~2012 was about the “party round,” could 2014 be about the Piggy Round? d) AngelList Syndicates : I haven’t seen any Syndicate take the entirety of a seed round yet but I’m sure it’ll happen. Are These Rounds Good for Founders?
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