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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. But we’re doing it slowly.

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

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. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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

David Teten

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. Organizations like Accelerate Yale and Columbia Entrepreneurship have made important strides in bringing different university tech groups under one umbrella and hosting high-quality events in.

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7 Strategies To Reduce The Cost Of Finding Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

In all cases, due diligence is recommended on every potential investor and angel group before spending money you don’t have, looking for money you need. As they say, you only get one chance to make a great first impression, so don’t pitch to a key angel group or venture capital team for practice.

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Entrepreneurs, Commit Not These 7 Deadly Sins

YoungUpstarts

Angel and other seed fund investors fund prototypes. Most VCs don’t invest pre-revenue. To be successful, your business plan must match milestones to the sources of capital. He’s formed multiple venture capital funds, founded angel groups, and is an angel investor.

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Funding options for growing businesses

Up and Running

Common forms of equity investment are friends and family, angel investors and venture capital. Angel investments generally refer to contributions of $1M or less and are labeled ‘seed’ investments while venture capital investments are generally labeled as ‘Series A’ and are $2.5M or greater. or greater.

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