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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

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. Clear the clutter.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

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. May 3, 2009.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. Talk to people and get their POV.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. Talk to people and get their POV.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

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. This requires a real financial sacrifice. In this, they resembled many other professional services firms.

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Friday Funism – Fear vs Greed

View from Seed

The context for this assessment is typically around a fundraising event – the approach, when it should occur, and who is participating, etc. With the proliferation of multiple seed rounds prior to a Series A, these situations are coming up increasingly in the early stage startup ecosystem.