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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. However, the conventional wisdom is that small VC funds have better performance profiles than large ones.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. ProfessorVC. Thursday, January 17, 2008. Touched by an Angel. Help, please.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. The typical Silicon Valley term sheet does not include such terms. Caveat emptor.

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David S. Rose – Father of Angel Investing in New York

Startup Professionals Musings

David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Lots of returns are being made these days, but the latest CalPers report shows dissapointing returns by Israeli VC firms , with an IRR of 3.5%-3.8% Four Israelis made the list of the 100 most influential women in high tech in Europe drawn up by the UK branch of Silicon Valley-based Girls in Tech, which seeks to promote women in high tech.

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