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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. I’ll make my next posting shorter.

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Bras Meet Software at Babson

Campus Entrepreneurship

The company is about to close a $500,000 – $700,000 round of angel financing. From biotech and software startups to performance t-shirt and great fitting lingerie, the Campus Frontier is open to all willing to take the challenge. Its amazing how much entrepreneurial action is taking place on campus these days.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

“How much is that software really worth? We were building a VC backed software business so I had to focus on the product business. Angel financing – just because VCs won’t back this kind of business doesn’t mean angels won’t. Who else is using it? How much did they pay?

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Answers to the 5 Most Common Angel Investor Questions

Growthink Blog

The amount of angel financing is significant. According to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, each year over 60,000 ventures raise over $20 billion from angel investors. Will an angel investor invest in my (insert restaurant, hotel, technology, website, product, app, salon, etc.)?

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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. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Families Help Nurture Vanderbilt Entrepreneurs

Campus Entrepreneurship

Great piece from Sramana Mitra highlighting two entrepreneurs that launched an educational software firm, Archipelago Learning, out of Vanderbilt. From the piece : Family suppoert allowed Vanderbilt University fraternity brothers David Muzzo and Cameron Chalmers in 2000 to cofound Study Island, an educational software company.

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

Startup Company Lawyer

In a typical venture financing, there is a voting agreement that governs how specific board seats will be filled. In angel financings, I typically eliminate the voting agreement anyway and simply have a closing condition that the board consist of certain persons. Voting agreement. Drafting issues in later rounds.

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