Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a result, being an entrepreneur in now within the financial reach of almost everyone. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. I encourage entrepreneurs to give it a shot and let me know what you think. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. As a result, being an entrepreneur in now within the financial reach of almost everyone. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJs. was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Bootstrapping 101.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? Every university makes efforts to get interconnected with the entrepreneur community," Zwilling says. Find out where to look, what to look for, and what to offer a new hire.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. Ive seen a number of entrepreneurs, angels and VCs fall into the trap of providing debt in small pieces. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. Im going to continue to follow the paths of entrepreneurs turned VCs turned entrepreneurs again and see how it evolves. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. return on investment after 3.5

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Gust

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

What are investors looking for in the CEO and the rest of the top executives? This may not seem fair to all you first-time entrepreneurs, but wouldn’t you choose to bet on a horse that has been in races before, and won, rather than an unknown in his first race? That’s how important the people are. Been there, done that, and won.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The NIF (in its 5th year), is essentially a science fair for entrepreneurs. Here are a few of the budding entrepreneurs that I chatted with at the event: Jeff Gibboney, a graduate mechanical engineering student, developed a battery operated skateboard for cruising to school or work. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

At a high level, I definitely agree that being an entrepreneur and being in school dont necessarily mix. Most of us know of Exhibits 1 ( Bill Gates ) and 2 ( Mark Zuckerberg ) from Harvard, but I have met dozens of other successful entrepreneurs who felt a greater need to get going on an opportunity than to wait around to complete a degree.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Do you have the right make-up to be an entrepreneur? You need to be true to yourself and many people arent cut out to take the personal and professional risk associated with being an entrepreneur. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I have noticed this same feeling when making a venture capital or angel investment. While spending time with the entrepreneurs and championing the deal through the group, you tend to become emotionally attached. As early stage investors, our goal is to eliminate as much risk as possible with the least amount of cash spent.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

An excellent question to ponder as the school year begins, but the answer depends on whether you are looking for a plumber or an angel investor. Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups. These angels invested $17.6 Thursday, September 2, 2010.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl. Series B and the $5M Series A , there were angels writing checks with many less 0s. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For firms that dont have access to the most successful entrepreneurs, trying to predict an individual or individual teams success rate based on experience, personal attributes, intellect, etc. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. The darts seem to be doing quite well over the past few years.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

I get asked this question a lot by entrepreneurs (and students). Related to this, I got an email from an entrepreneur this week interested in meeting with me. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Of course, the most important funding statistic to an entrepreneur relates to one specific company, and whether there is sufficient capital available to build and scale his business. Many companies that have raised capital are going to need to spend it wisely to win and others will be forced to bootstrap. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I thought about the name some more and I do spend much of my time teaching entrepreneurship and coaching entrepreneurs. I have also been a VC and am currently actively angel investing as a member of Sand Hill Angels. First post will be about a panel I was on earlier this week with several other angel investors.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

Ross is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, battered but still standing after the Internet collapse. His angel investors are tapped out and the VCs arent biting. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I ran across a couple of blog posts by another angel investor in Card Munch, Ty Danco. Perhaps, there is more to the deal or maybe it is just a face saving gesture on the part of investors. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The article, " More Guardian, Less Angel " discusses how CFOs add value to angel groups by helping to kill deals. I spent most of the time with the reporter talking about Sand Hill Angels and how we add value to the start-ups and entrepreneurs that we partner with, which is why I just have a small mention in the article.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

In addition to the first prize, he was also given office space at the Plug and Play incubator for the summer and get to spend his days with other entrepreneurs and investors. Labels: bootstrapping , business plans , entrepreneurship. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2016

Aspiring entrepreneurs often approach me as an angel investor, touting their innovative idea for yet another online dating site. In reality, dating is a form of social networking, so Facebook could easily enhance their services in this direction, if the market traction of others was evident.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Go to meetings of any campus entrepreneurs groups. And you will have to be the one with the mad social skills.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." In how many of those were you a lead investor? Labels: angel groups , Angel Investors , fundraising.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. That’s the entrepreneur we are looking for.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

VFAs tagline is "Mobilizing graduates as entrepreneurs" and is "A program for young, talented grads to spend 2 years in the trenches of a start-up with the goal that these graduates will become socialized and mobilized as entrepreneurs moving forward." Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's. Bootstrapping 101.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Create your own social network. Google Groups.

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