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Smoke vs Fire: Handling ?Preemptive? Interest From VCs ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Entrepreneurs can sink a lot of time into fundraising discussions that go nowhere or end with actual term sheets but ones they’re not prepared to accept (firms you don’t want to work with, terms you don’t like, etc). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect. Any city wherepeople start startups will have one or more of them.