Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2012

They focus on specific business areas, have multiple deals running concurrently, understand deal flow, and usually have more current insights, connections, and resources. The value-add of both angels and VCs is totally dependent on the individuals involved, but on average VCs are likely to add more value than angels.

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IRR Term Sheet Startup Valuation 248

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow. She is a model for us all!

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

And Gripne’s paper, Laying the Groundwork for the National Impact Investing Marketplace , makes the case that the reason we do not have $1B impact funds for nonprofits, immigrants, and women, is not because we do not have $50M of institutional quality of deal flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

They focus on specific business areas, have multiple deals running concurrently, understand deal flow, and usually have more current insights, connections, and resources. The value-add of both angels and VCs is totally dependent on the individuals involved, but on average VCs are likely to add more value than angels.

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IRR Startup Term Sheet Angel Investor 225

Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

It is used by hundreds of thousands of companies in 195 countries to organize all of their investor relations material; it is used by over a thousand angel investor networks, venture capital funds and startup accelerators to manage their deal flow and collaboration; and it is used by over 50,000 individual accredited angel investors in 75 countries (..)

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor Early Stage 150

View from Seed

JANUARY 30, 2020

Has the investor ever gone out on a limb for you, and done something helpful that has real cost to them? These partners are probably inundated with new deal flow, are managing some high-fliers in the firms portfolio, and are probably just starting to take on a leadership role in fundraising and firm management.

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Due Diligence Partner Term Sheet Finance 195

Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

On this dimension, most seed funds can’t even compete on network, brand, or the cost of capital. When more capital is chasing the same set, entry prices go up and returns are likely to go down.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Homebuyer (Cincinnati, OH) Dan Green, CEO Homebuyer is a lead nurture system for mortgage lenders that reduces customer acquisition costs and increases per-loan profits. Investors connect with Techstars to gain access to quality deal flow.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

that’s a full third of our deal flow in our first full year of operation. The money is flowing in Dallas too?—?our Station Houston members should expect the cost to stay the same and the benefits to only get better over the next year. It’s working?—?40

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David Teten

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This helps create diversified deal flow and closed investments. This would cost little to organize, just one staff person’s time to coordinate. Typically, the SIGs that interest an alum will change dramatically over the arc of their lives. . Run mutual opt-in speed networking.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Database Florida America 60

The Startup Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. And we do the heavy lifting and there is no charge for this – it’s included with the monthly cost of the storage. We can return everything, or, just one box such as decorations.

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Genuine VC

JULY 6, 2011

VCs are triaging their own incoming deal flow, traveling, or are booked up on their calendar for the next couple weeks. At all costs, the momentum in consummating an agreement needs to continue through obstacles (weekends, vacations, interruptions, etc.) The list continues on and on.

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Term Sheet Deal Flow Venture Capital Conversion 150

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. I see there is no support for the assertions that the benfits of using standardized documents outweights the costs of customizing and negotiating important issues. Posted by: Ted Wang | 03/02/2010 at 06:29 AM. Posted by: Peter Leahy | 03/02/2010 at 07:33 AM.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

It is used by hundreds of thousands of companies in 195 countries to organize all of their investor relations material; it is used by over a thousand angel investor networks, venture capital funds and startup accelerators to manage their deal flow and collaboration; and it is used by over 50,000 individual accredited angel investors in 75 countries (..)

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor Early Stage 89

VC Cafe

APRIL 24, 2024

To the most part, AI is being used to save time and lower production costs. billion was deployed into early-stage gaming deals in a single quarter (much attributed to Covid lockdowns etc). While investors have reset their expectations, a few more big exits or a consistent increase in deal flow could help reopen the funding floodgates.

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IP Artificial Inteligence Early Stage IPO 135

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. Kushim manages your deal flow and track portfolio performance.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I think there is probably innovation to be found in simple equity financing documents that: simplifies the documentation required and keeps cost in line with that of a convertible note. Personally, I’m not a fan of notes and very much prefer equity financing. allows founders to close on cash quickly and sequentially.

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www.gabrielweinberg.com

AUGUST 28, 2012

Get an edge (lower valuations, better deal flow, etc.) Opportunity cost is large for activ e investments. Our basic strategy thus far was as follows: Put the same amount initially in each (since you don't know what is actually going to work). by leading rounds and being willing to jump first.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Making good (development) investments requires all the deal flow generation and evaluation work of a professional investor; the alternative is poor selection. In exchange for equity, we discount the project cost, which is already low because we offshore most of our development, by 10-15%.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. Worst case scenario in the partner’s’ eyes: “lack of transparency and lack of deal flow and lukewarm leads that never turn into anything.”. Can this be true? Partnerships can be a big help. Sales Support and Account Management.

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Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And so professional angels that have access to real deal flow? ” So people who are great and have good deal flow have the ability to not have to take as much risk. Edwin: Yeah, one of the challenges is that meeting cost is not a separate line item on the P&L statement so nobody attacks it.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. Worst case scenario in the partner’s’ eyes: “lack of transparency and lack of deal flow and lukewarm leads that never turn into anything.”. Can this be true? Partnerships can be a big help. Sales Support and Account Management.

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Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Rob Go

MARCH 16, 2014

What’s the cost of attempting something? In venture capital, the cost of attempting something is meaningful, but not that high. I find this to be somewhat similar to the outcomes of job hunting, except that the cost of an “attempt” is much lower. The dimensions that I think about are: 1. of total capital).

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Distribution Venture Capital Deal Flow Aggregator 66

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I highlight endogenous social impact because many of my portfolio companies might give money to charity or provide low-cost pricing to nonprofits, but that’s not what I think of as an impact company; they’re tacking on social impact on top of their core business, whatever that is. . Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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