View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the founder or founding team has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Lower level of community familiarity. Of the Inc.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. We’re not talking about syndicates here, which would mean you’re paying a layer of carry and relying on other people’s deal flow, which is pretty much like fund investing.

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Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 134

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Fund your startup yourself.

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Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. It provides an outlet for mentors to engage in their local startup communities and keep a pulse on emerging technologies. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate. And it’s fun.

Syndicate 70

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Vertical 70

Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

If ROI and asset allocation are the sole objective for an angel investor, then they may be best served investing in late stage startups via secondary markets or investing in a VC fund (if they have access to high quality funds) rather than trying to find and pick a bunch of early-stage startups to invest in.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Syndicate Syndication 265

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Fund your startup yourself.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283

Rob Go

APRIL 19, 2017

Recently, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with a number of the new early-stage investors in Boston. As more early-stage investors emerge in Boston, some folks have asked me whether I feel any discomfort around the many new “competitors” on the scene. There are a lot of new folks in the space.

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Early Stage Boston Artificial Inteligence Term Sheet 34

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

At Foundry Group, we’ve experimented with lots of different things around company creation and early stage investment. We’ve made over 60 investments through FG Angels – our AngelList syndicate – and are one of the most prolific investors on that platform. We have a lot of investments in Seattle.

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Seattle San Francisco Angel Investor Syndicate 70

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. These are all worth asking … and therefore worth answering. .

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Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). Early stage research and development won’t excite angels. Thus, angel investments from across the country or internationally are rare.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Accredited Investor Venture Capital Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Fund your startup yourself.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

While the audience was Colorado focused, the overall message I delivered about the angel ecosystem is very relevant to all entrepreneurial communities. Most angel deals happen in syndicates (meaning multiple investors participate), yet many angels are extremely poor at working together with other potential investors.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Colorado 48

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. Early stage finds give you the opportunity to get exposure to the asset class without putting all your eggs in one basket. 2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible.

Angel Investor 133

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Portfolio 133

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013. The tour starts in Dallas on June 4 and ends in Austin on June 6 with an epic 10 year birthday party for Capital Factory!

Texas 50

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company. For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. But a larger fund also allows us to invest a broader range of amounts in early seed rounds.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

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. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups.

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%. Specialty tools like Angel List , Gust , SeedInvest , and OurCrowd are emerging as potentially significant tools for sourcing early-stage investments.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Are they well regarded in the community? If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. Fewer investors will take common stock in early stage transactions.

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Entrepreneur Valuation Sweat Equity Common Stock 60

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

After two years of a dedicated experiment, we’ve decided to stop making new investments via our FG Angels Syndicate. The Monday after AngelList announced their Syndicate product in September 2013 we decided to to jump in with both feet and start FG Angels. Average syndicate investment amount per deal: $316k.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Portfolio 70

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As cofounder of an early stage venture fund myself, I’m here to tell you that while these statements are accurate, they’re also misleading when trying to understand the broad impact these implosions may have upon a firm. Relationship Cost of SPVs/Direct Co-Investment and LP Credibility.

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Vertical LP Syndicate Syndication 48

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. After getting to know Ben from the tech community, he pitched me his concept for a CPG food company.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. For example, here is how a few of my favorite startups describe themselves: “ Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone.”

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PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

The $750 million fund combines all of our prior fund strategies – our early stage, early growth, and partner fund investments – into a single fund. For historical reference, our early-stage funds (FG 2007, FG 2010, FG 2013, and FG 2016) are all $225 million in size. We now have seven equal partners.

Syndicate 17

Syndicate Syndication IRR Canada 17

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York , we have put a lot of energy into educating our community about the returns potential and process of angel investing.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

While I work with a few companies in Silicon Valley, the vast majority of my clients are either in Austin or ecosystems that look much more like Austin than SV; “second tier” tech communities. There is very little time for, or interest in, companies that would legitimately call a $50MM or $100MM exit a true success.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

First, we had a contact from within the startup community read through our application and give us honest feedback on it. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86