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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not suggesting that there aren’t lots of hard technical problems being solved in today’s startups… nearly any developer worth his or her salt could build Facebook or Twitter like products for a few hundred users, but few can make them scale to hundreds of millions. Filed under Uncategorized. link] leehower.

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. The investment network here is growing, but is still grossly developing when compared to those coastal cities. versus $10M+). However, Austin is well poised to catch up quickly.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft.