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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade.

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How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.

This is going to be BIG.

Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. Venture Capital & Technology'

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. 3) Documenting best practices.

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9 Keys To Finding The Perfect Angel Investor For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples. Venture capitalists, on the other hand, rarely consider requests below $2M. Document your plan and your financial projections. Angels spread their risk by making multiple smaller investments.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

The easiest way to do so is via SAFE notes, due to their simplicity, “available online” documentation, no major covenants established to protect the investors, no governance implications at the board level, etc. All of these items are postponed until the elusive priced equity round.

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Marketing Your Portfolio Companies to Other Investors

David Teten

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. Though these tools can be helpful to the syndication process, I believe it will largely remain a relationship-based process for some time to come. . TEMPLATE DOCUMENT FOR SHARING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITH OTHER VCs.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Gimlet’s first podcast, documents the process Alex Bloomberg went through to found Gimlet Media with his partner, Matthew Lieber.

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