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Gust
DECEMBER 27, 2012
You should know EVERYTHING about your business, product, customers and competition. You should have a crystal clear understanding of your business model and your financials. Understand what investors are looking for , what they usually invest in, and why. Your goal in all this is to try to find a lead investor.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors.
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Professor VC
APRIL 1, 2010
One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. While this may certainly be the case with unsophisticated angels (much less of these now) or in cases with no lead investor, Id argue the opposite.
Professor VC
OCTOBER 20, 2009
In how many of those were you a lead investor? What percentage of your members are not active angel investors (i.e. At Sand Hill, we are very active and often lead investor and Series A board representative. Are DEMO's days numbered? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.
Professor VC
JANUARY 20, 2009
The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. 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. Total amount raised fell from $7.5 We drew $1.5
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