article thumbnail

How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Companies that are currently pursuing similar products include 10eqs (connecting experts with applicable research projects); Article One (patent and IP research); Experts 123 (expert articles with revenue sharing); and Wonder (connect people to company research questions; I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital).

article thumbnail

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.

article thumbnail

Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”