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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. On April 10, 2014, I published a blog post, titled The New Venture Landscape , which explained why and how the venture ecosystem was shifting. I’ve written about this on the K9 Ventures blog.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

New industries never ask if it’s ok to sell a new raw material, they just take it and commercialise the demand for it. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. We did that with nature – land, trees and the oil under the ground that powers our world. Industrialists just took it and sold it.