Deal Flow Finance Technical Review Technology 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
One of the major calibration pieces for me was where to find deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I sorted out pretty early that lawyers were a great source of deal flow. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. The following is a condensed explanation of seed funding: Seed money is a form of early-stage financing that new businesses receive from investors in exchange for a share of ownership in the company.
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Haystack
JUNE 2, 2018
If you read yesterday’s post, you can see just how insane the proliferation of seed financings have been. As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow. This a common refrain among many seed investors in private. When I started investing and no one knew me, I would just invest in folks I knew well.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
One of the major calibration pieces for me was where to find deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I sorted out pretty early that lawyers were a great source of deal flow. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Early stage investing is not a spreadheet, quantitative driven exercise, nor is it about technology – it is a deal business and people drive the deals.
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? I recommend building a strong internal tech stack, to handle the deluge of requests for help you’ll get from companies as you scale. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation .
Mucker Lab
AUGUST 27, 2014
At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Given our backgrounds, we often get asked about what makes the tech scene in Los Angeles different from that in the Valley.
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