Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns). We market to four populations: High-potential founders.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. NEA, Bessemer) or family of related funds (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Currently, there are about 250 micro-VC firms , including such notable names as Mike Maples of FloodGate Fund. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Dallas (North) is the ninth largest city and was recently named the number one commercial real estate market in the US. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

You can see this in sites where the website’s navigation uses vague internal terms like “Back Office Services” or the names of your company’s various divisions. When you offer a vibrant and dynamic experience to explore, you work toward building your brand’s equity.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

At NextView, we prefer to think in terms of a startup’s actual business progression rather than round names. This has allowed these firms to invest larger amounts at the later end of the seed spectrum, and some have even started to lead or syndicate Series A rounds with others.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

I''m all for transparency, but won''t be naming names in this post as I don''t want to put some entrepreneurs in a difficult position. Another closely related area is that of variable pricing on convertible debt or equity deals where different investors have different caps.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A few years ago, it was Private Equity, then Real Estate, then Hedge Funds. Below is an interview I did with one such entrepreneur (thanks for our friends and OpenView for helping with the filming and syndication). Business students (both undergrad and grads) are notorious for flocking towards the hot sectors of the present.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms. In a syndicate there is usually a"lead" investor who negotiates the terms with the startup. Dont feel like you have to join a syndicate, though. This isyet another problem that gets solved for you by syndicates.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Unfortunately, outside of the IPO-syndicate-bias and the much-maligned Sarbanes Oxley, the article does not address far more serious systemic regulatory consequences that further exacerbate the problem– such as the combined impact of decimalization and the Spitzer decree (taking trading commissions down from $0.125 per share to $0.01

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. For this round of investment, the angels collectively purchase 20-40% of the equity of the company and are seeking a return on investment of 20-30X in a period of five to eight years.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. The theory states that all ifnormation is publicy available and it is not possible to earn returns above average on a risk-adjusted basis.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. I'm also excited to have shared this opportunity with a fantastic syndicate of investors. That's Ample Hills.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I would propose that we call these types of investors “syndicate investors”—super useful folks who join with others to help rounds get raised on various crowd investing platforms. I believe the name creates a certain set of expectations and founders make assumptions about it enough that you should be a bit discerning about how you use it.

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