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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. And a great product starts with the founder.

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VC Seed Funding Example: Trada

Feld Thoughts

My partner Seth Levine has a detailed post up today titled Trada – from the beginning that describes the creation and financing of Trada. We did a second financing by ourselves at an increased valuation – this was the “Series B&#. Recently Google Ventures led the a $5.75m “Series C&# round.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners. Angel financing – just because VCs won’t back this kind of business doesn’t mean angels won’t.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Andrew also asked how he could partner with the 1M/1M program. peerbackers. About Sramana Mitra.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Voting agreement.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship. In fact, if your co-founder is a friend or relative, that should trigger even more issues and discussions.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Company: Founder Institute. Since 2009 the Founder Institute has helped. Crunchbase.

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