Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Now that I’ve been an institutional VC for a few years, I thought it would be helpful to revisit our findings from the investor side of the table. The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. But the problem is that most deals – even really promising ones – fail. Access to Deal Flow.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. What follows is the best advice and tips from these interviews.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2017, we released the Texas Startup Manifesto , outlining a vision of a united Texas startup ecosytsem where startup entrepreneurs treat the four major metropolitan areas as one big city when they are recruiting talent, fundraising, and acquiring customers. One time we invaded Fort Worth with more than 100 entrepreneurs on THREE buses?—?one

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Most of the deals you fund have already been funded by someone else, so you're most likely going to see a deal through a seed investor you probably know. First, the entrepreneur has to go find someone who knows me. No VC has a magical stream of only high quality deal flow. Screening is part of the job.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2011

If you can’t find a sure thing, the next best bet is to learn from the best practices of successful investors. Here are tips from active angel investors who have enjoyed success with some of today’s leading technology companies: Investors Rely on Networks. Investors Stay Involved. We start with the people first.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program. At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia. ISA Innovation. A mistake, in my opinion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

The above was the opening salvo of a controversial tweetstorm yesterday by my former student and 500 Startups founding partner, Dave McClure (full venom below). Subsequently, they also introduced a platform for individual angel investors and funds to syndicate a piece of their investment in exchange for a carry on the syndicated portion.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

This equates to 3-4 new investments per year per partner, which is the pace at which we think we can be very active with companies during their first few years of life. We try to maintain a pretty steady investment pace each year, although it tends to ebb and flow a little bit based on our deal flow and valuations in the market.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs.

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