Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. Because of the interest in the 2010 survey, I decided to survey a larger number of North American angel groups this summer (2011).

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The partner most obsessed with the startup lifestyle tests the water by going to work in an early-stage startup, similar to one they might hope to start someday. Get to know the people there, and ask them for pointers to new ventures that are still in the formative stage. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur Stock Options Due Diligence 120

Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options.

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Liquidity Event Technical Review Due Diligence Angel Groups 76

Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

How Crowdfunding is Affecting Angel Group Investment. government’s long standing restrictions on fundraising has given life to a new type of financing called crowdfunding that allows Angel and other early stage investors to quickly assemble a group of investors over the internet.

Angel Groups 51

Angel Groups Accredited Investor Angel Investor Due Diligence 51

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I think you have to listen to the queue’s.” “…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. I still prefer angel route 1 (above) but this is the next best option in my mind. Professional angel associations – This one is the source of much controversy. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you.

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2023

Here I am a professional investor in early-stage companies, and I attempt to find those with the greatest chance of success and growth in value over time. How about the early-stage investors? You might be interested in this data as viewed from the early-stage investor’s viewpoint. Data does not lie.

SBA 62

SBA Angel Investor Early Stage Liquidity Event 62

ithacaVC

MARCH 14, 2011

At the early stages of a startup, the founding team is probably the most important variable of success. Focusing on the early stage, the founding team typically will have a tech oriented founder and a business oriented founder. The management team continues as the critical success factor.

Early Stage 45

Early Stage Founder Burn Rate Cofounder 45

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds appeared first on David Teten. Methodology.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Gust

APRIL 23, 2014

Gust News angel groups businesses financial industry Gust innovations startups' The result is that nearly $2 billion has been invested directly as primary investments into more companies than in total are traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ combined. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

Angel Groups 127

Angel Groups Accredited Investor Private Equity Deal Flow 127

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Many investments in startups start with local venture firms in the early stages and then attract non-local venture firms for later stage and larger deal size opportunities. Entrepreneurs with early stage companies typically look for local funding before going out of region to pursue other funding sources.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance. The answer, of course, is Gust —because that’s exactly the purpose behind the platform! Above is a screen shot I just took of my Gust investor dashboard.

Angel Investor 150

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor Early Stage 150

Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2017

Here I am a professional investor in early stage companies, and I attempt to find those with the greatest chance of success and growth in value over time. Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel groups in the United States, published its data in 2016, showing sixty-eight percent plunging to less than the amount invested.

Angel Investor 106

Angel Investor Angel Groups Liquidity Event Early Stage 106

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. If you’re working with early-stage companies you need to be spending quality time with them which means you need to be nearby.

Community 378

Community San Diego Silicon Valley Los Angeles 378

View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

This is true when it comes to early-stage funding, but also as it relates to support platforms being built by local firms to help Boston-based startups. This group includes firms like Hyperplane , focused on machine learning, and Procyon Ventures , focused on next-gen infrastructure, machine learning, and the IoT software spaces.

Boston 215

Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

I hope you can join me for this: So You Want to Be an Angel? what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. 8 – 8:30 pm: Meet other angels. Keynote Speaker: David Teten ( Presentation sneak peek: Introduction to Angel Investing ).

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

I hope you can join me for this program, cosponsored by Empire Angels ; HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York ; and the The Young Venture Capital Society. So You Want to Be an Angel? what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Gust

JUNE 25, 2014

Both are useful additions to the early stage entrepreneurial ecosystem. Both platforms allow investors (and others) to search for companies by criteria such as name, keyword and location. Note: the author is the CEO of Gust, and therefore clearly biased. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *. Gust News'

Angel Groups 138

Angel Groups Curation Early Stage Search 138

Gust

AUGUST 27, 2014

Some groups specialize, investing primarily in life sciences or tech companies or women-led ventures or other areas. Most are somewhere in between, focusing primarily on early-stage, high-growth companies with scalable business models. Some are wide open, investing in everything from real estate to films.

Angel Investor 133

Angel Investor Accredited Investor Angel Groups Syndicate 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Leaders and active members of all the major North American angel groups attend this three day conference, along with a large delegation of international business angels. NACO National Angel Summit. This is the big one, which rotates among different cities in the US each year. VentureForward Conference.

Angel Investor 125

Angel Investor Global Angel Groups Europe 125

Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance. The answer, of course, is Gust —because that’s exactly the purpose behind the platform! Above is a screen shot I just took of my Gust investor dashboard.

Angel Investor 89

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor Early Stage 89

Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Angel investing is rapidly evolving to the same state of development, as a result of networking, industry associations, and deal sharing between angel groups. Basil Peters is perhaps the best known name in the world of early stage company exits.

Term Sheet 91

Term Sheet Angel Groups Angel Investor Deal Structure 91

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process. This feels about right for an early stage angel investment and no reason that the process needs to drag out for months and even weeks. Labels: angel investing , Black Swan.

Technical Review 31

Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2014

At the early stage, the ranks of the non-partner investor are disappearing. Christina Bechhold didn''t forget that--and so she co-founded her own angel group. It''s a group of her peers from the professional world--up and coming titans of finance and consulting with good salaries and not a lot of dependents.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Early Stage Cofounder Angel Groups 114

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

How to make the most out of angel group participation. Latest trends in angel investing and where the industry is headed. INTRO BY: Dan Rosen, Partner at Commerce Ventures & Learning Officer at HBS Angels. How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). How to source great deals.

San Francisco 114

San Francisco Venture Capital Angel Groups LLC 114

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected.

Equity 62

Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62

SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

But, this is not my experience with Angel groups. I guess I’m wondering why early stage investment isn’t aiming at these kinds of investments? Bob is heavily focused on ROI (and team/product). But it seems like Bob would be a candidate. Or maybe they are and I’m missing it because I’m going to TCA events?

Hockey Stick 205

Hockey Stick NPV IRR Valuation 205

Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. However, that is not always the case as there is no qualification to set out your shingle as an angel investor or form an angel group.

Angel Investor 28

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor San Jose 28

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

If you’re here on gust.com as an entrepreneur, I think you should know that many angel investor groups like convertible notes, mainly for one of the reasons Fred mentions: angel groups often look at relatively early stages, and the convertible note puts off the valuation for later, when – everybody involved.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor Valuation Angel Groups Equity 114

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

How to make the most out of angel group participation. How to collaborate effectively with other angel groups. We will also discuss the latest trends in angel investing and where the industry is headed next. For a preview of the discussion, see “ Introduction to Angel Investing ”. 6:30 Registration.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant concludes , “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check. They’re buying into companies post-seed funding, with traction, at prices that aren’t significantly higher than angel prices.”.

IRR 114

IRR Angel Investor Angel Groups Cofounder 114

VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2014

I’ll be speaking at an Impact Angel Group event on February 12th. With a few other angel investors, I’ll be talking to other angel investors, along with prospective angel investors, about the role of impact investing the community, as well as in our own portfolios.

Angel Investor 92

Angel Investor Denver Angel Groups Early Stage 92

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Allen points to the support that StatSheet received from the NCIDEA , a program that grants very early stage companies funding. There are numerous other seed funding sources, including Southern Capital , IDEA Fund Partners, and at least three angel groups. There are also numerous regular networking events in the area.

North Carolina 151

North Carolina Raleigh United States Angel Groups 151