Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

Between peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, and even so-called “angel investors,” a hungry entrepreneur no longer needs to suffer at the hands of greedy, unscrupulous lenders to finally be able to get funding. Angel Investors. Unlike venture capitalists, though, angel inventors use their own money to finance a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It’s been awhile since we worked together on a daily basis so a lot was just general catch up, but one of the primary reasons for our chat was that this person was starting to become a more active angel investor and was just looking for feedback. totally passive strategy won’t teach you much).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Friends and family investors. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2012

Since 1970, NAIC Member firms who focus on private equity and venture have invested in and transformed more than 20,000 companies. More precise matching of investors/board members with companies. NAIC ‘s involvement in VCAP© insures that a robust pipeline of diverse entrepreneurs will participate.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

No business owner should enter into an agreement with an investor before learning about the terms they offer and their reputation. ANGEL INVESTOR : These are individuals who offer capital to startups in exchange for equity, partial ownership or convertible debt. SYNDICATES : Syndicates are single-purpose investment funds.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. These are groups of angel investors – individuals who are pooling their money together to purchase tokens. From there, you can find various syndicates. Syndicates also know other syndicates.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. These are groups of angel investors – individuals who are pooling their money together to purchase tokens. From there, you can find various syndicates. Syndicates also know other syndicates.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur ), and treat them the same way we would with a $10m investment.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla! all Bay Area firms?—?

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The news that Congress is seriously considering major re-writes of the painfully anachronistic rules on small securities offerings could just be the straw that breaks the back of this now 12 year equity investing return drought. As an angel investor, I say “ how can I get in on the fun! ” Now what could be better than that?

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

One area I''ve noticed a lot more recently are angel investors and seed stage funds trying to grab a little bit extra, whether it''s warrants for leading the round, advisor shares to go along with the investment, or a common stock stake for just being who they are. I have turned down several of these types of transactions recently.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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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. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead I want to comment on what a “10x Angel” looks like – the type of individual investor who delivers value to the startup in ways that are notably different than the average funder. One reason Satya and I thought we had Product Market Fit for starting Homebrew was behavior we saw as angel investors.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

That’s why one of the best options for you today is to join a local angel investor group, where you will work collegially with 25-250 other investors to hear pitches from companies, do your due diligence homework, and then—if you are interested—pool your money with the others to make meaningful investments.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

We price our seed rounds as equity investments, always lead or co-lead … and treat them the same way we would a $10m investment… when we make a seed investment, it gets everyone’s attention. In this case neither Niel (nor I) had any interest in creating a traditional syndicate to fund the company.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. These angel investors generally invest $25,000 to $100,000 in a round totaling $250,000 to $1,000,000.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. Acquirer/ Investor. ff Venture Capital.

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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. Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. These angels invested $17.6 ► July. (1).

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). 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.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « "What Makes an Attractive Angel Investment" | Main. | Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor. The best salesperson is. » April 12, 2006.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When youhear people talking about a successful angel investor, theyre notsaying "He got a 4x liquidation preference." Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms. Dont feel like you have to join a syndicate, though. VCs can be fast followers.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

If your friends or family happen to be rich, the line blurs betweenthem and angel investors. At Viaweb we got our first $10,000 ofseed money from our friend Julian, but he was sufficiently richthat its hard to say whether he should be classified as a friendor angel. Angel Investors Angels are individual rich people.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. and the investors, who put up $1m in a convertible note, get 0.1%.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

It was a great product addressing a large market opportunity and was interested in seeing how the AngelList syndicate process worked. Due to confidentiality provisions, I can''t disclose details, but there are many very unhappy participants who invested through the syndicate. Syndicates can either be company led or investor led.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is a key reason why the average retail investor consistently earns below-average returns. The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. Angel investors earn higher returns than small VCs, who in turn earn higher returns than large VCs, let alone most other asset classes.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It used to be that the only people who could even get into angel rounds were high net worth individuals that could write at least $25,000 checks—so if someone said they were an angel investor, you could assume this was their minimum check size. — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) February 21, 2019.

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