Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Fund your startup yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. Warm introductions from common friends are even better, so networking with potential peers and future investors is highly recommended well before it’s time to ask for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Fund your startup yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. 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.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Short track record. Cash collateral.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

No matter how capable and experienced, an entrepreneur needs as many trusted, networked and experienced eyes and ears to help her navigate through this dynamic market. If there is an opportunity to bring in a syndicate partner that will add exponential value, it would be foolish to not include them.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We’ll be doing this via AngelList’s new Syndicate approach through an entity called FG Angel where we will create a syndicate of up to $500,000, allowing others to invest $450,000 alongside anything we do. Foundry Group ) can create the syndicate in the future, at which point we’ll move the activity over to there.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. 2) Raise capital.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Fund your startup yourself.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re not showing up at all the events, putting out content, constantly networking, generating enough deal flow—more specifically enough high-quality deal flow—being able to co-invest next to experienced professionals can really boost your funnel. Option #2 Do 50/50 angel investing and fund investing.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. Back in 2017, Fred Wilson noted the strategic importance of the seed stage , writing: Seed is really hard. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni. The AngelList funds will give mentors and alumni early investment access while providing companies with additional early stage capital. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Fund your startup yourself.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2012

In the article, I discuss why we think that smart early-stage investors should target women and diverse entrepreneurs, and why we think HBS Alumni Angels in particular is well positioned to be very successful.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2017

Many large corporations face three seemingly disconnected challenges; they want: – Better returns on their balance sheet and underfunded pensions; – Access to the innovation economy to stay on top of the early-stage companies attacking their business; and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. Warm introductions from common friends are even better, so networking with potential peers and future investors is highly recommended well before it’s time to ask for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Fund your startup yourself.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Further down the scale are the regional events that the organizations put on, which usually combine regional investment syndication with classes and tutorials. There are break out seminars on educational topics, and lots of networking. These are the ACA Leaders Workshop and the EBAN Winter University. Venture Capitalists.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

Most angel deals happen in syndicates (meaning multiple investors participate), yet many angels are extremely poor at working together with other potential investors. The results are burdensome on a company, result in the duplication and overlap of due diligence and force too much of the syndication work on the company itself.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. Early stage finds give you the opportunity to get exposure to the asset class without putting all your eggs in one basket.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Wilmington Investor Network. Central Texas Angel Network. 3) Some groups invest $2 million or more in pre-revenue companies, while others typically invest less than $500,000 in these very early stage ventures. increasing. DC Dinner Clubs. DC/Virginia. up slightly. Sierra Angels. Incline Village, NV. Louis Arch Angels.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. Friends and family investors.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013. The tour starts in Dallas on June 4 and ends in Austin on June 6 with an epic 10 year birthday party for Capital Factory!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 9, 2012

Typically, we meet companies through our network of entrepreneurs and co-investors. We like meeting founders early, and often well before they start working on the project we ultimately invest in. Stage: We are seed investors, but often, the first institutional seed round happens at different stages in the company’s maturity.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It possesses a strong corporate base, talented workforce, and a vast network of nationally ranked universities, startup development organizations and innovation-minded companies to support a robust tech ecosystem,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. all Bay Area firms?—?

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In almost all of these cases, these smaller investors were included into a syndicate because they “added value” either through domain or functional expertise or through their network. Think about this when you are selecting smaller investors to add to your syndicate. Finally, visit your out of town investors.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. We invest in companies that are early – we take the early stage risk and hope to be rewarded for that risk. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. Surprisingly few seed funds operate this way.

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