The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2017

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

Africa 62

Africa Ethiopia Elevator Pitch Technical Review 62

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

To outside investors, the future of early stage and startup companies can be murky. Many of these companies are pre-revenue and in the cash burn stage as they try to establish their technology and market. When investors believe in the founders, products, or ideas they will provide companies with funding.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Forecast Early Stage Term Sheet 133

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . The rest have been companies with some early market validation. Lead investors are few. Belief #2: Capital is plentiful.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. The market just isn't that efficient to truly determine the best.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

As an entrepreneur, you are most likely spending most of your time building your product and getting it to market. Example #1: Your company is about to be sold and as the acquirer is doing due diligence it wants to make sure that there are no outstanding claims to the intellectual property of your company. Good luck with that.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Due Diligence 60

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Reilly Tech Ventures, was so concerned about the network that he deleted his AngelList account. Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. The reasoning behind investing in an index fund is that it closely matches the overall market - and it? To my surprise, VC?

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. At its core, this issue points to the lack of understanding about the importance of post-money valuation by both entrepreneurs and investors. All of these items are postponed until the elusive priced equity round.

Post-Money Valuation 49

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Cap Table Covenant 49

David Teten

MARCH 31, 2012

I’m exceptionally excited to announce that I’m now Chairman and lead investor with some other angels in a new company, Spright Governance Inc. Spright is a spinoff of the Singaporean government, which will leverage their proven expertise and technology to run other cities, states, and nations globally.

Government 154

Government Singapore New York City Non-Compete 154

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

First, AngelList Invest is available to any company on AngelList that has a top-tier lead investor. And the lead investor has to be putting in at least $100,000 in capital, says Ravikant. First Hands-On With The Incident Tech GTar. HTC One Review. Also on AOL Tech. More in Gadgets. with a $3 sale.

SEC 61

SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Construction is a trillion-dollar market, but planning remains complicated and inaccurate.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 110

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

The right lead investor and the right amount of cushion in a raise can help with the best defense against scaling disaster—hiring. If you’re a company, perhaps less than a year old, and you’re entering the first phases of strong growth, you’re in an interesting position in the talent market.

Dilution 104

Dilution Equity Hiring Partner 104

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I believed them when they promised something and it would all pan out in due time. We overlooked doing extensive market research. More specifically, we did market research in the wrong place. Co-Investors. We picked the investor who was far better known in the market and supposedly had reach into the US.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the future, angel rounds will less often be for specific amountsor have a lead investor. forstartups was to find one angel to act as the lead investor. Youdnegotiate a round size and valuation with the lead, whod supplysome but not all of the money. Then the startup and the lead wouldcooperate to find the rest.

Startup 93

Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

  In my opinion, the reason that capped convertible debt is the current market leader is that entrepreneurs have been conditioned over time to believe that convertible debt is (a) faster (b) cheaper and (c) better for them than equity investment.  Why use Series Seed Documents instead of capped convertible debt? 

Term Sheet 40

Term Sheet Ratchet Dilution Equity 40

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

This is the case for two reasons: first, because the bare fact is that investors simply do not fund ideas. The expectation is that in an era of increasing technology and decreasing costs, you will be bringing them an operating company with at least some traction. Your goal in all this is to try to find a lead investor.

Software Review 164

Software Review Term Sheet Technical Review Angel Investor 164

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. Favor investment rounds with strong leads that haven’t raised millions of dollars before you. Preferably both. Don’t be cheap.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. Favor investment rounds with strong leads that haven’t raised millions of dollars before you. Preferably both. Don’t be cheap.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

When he realized that the technology the company had built could potentially be used to test for COVID-19, he jumped in feet first. Fred Turner was building a biotech company here in the Bay Area working on sepsis detection when he realized that the technology that he was building could potentially be used to test for COVID-19.

Curation 60

Curation Government Los Angeles Partner 60

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. Investors see a lot of pitches. The blue boxes identify the corresponding markets for those products. Most technology revolutions are founded on one or two simple concepts.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing. The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Detailed due diligence. Profiled initially. Target Selected.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

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Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

What if you get product market fit beyond your wildest dreams? One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. We got scrutiny within weeks of going into markets when we were little. Eric Ries : And pretty unusual among tech platforms, if we're being honest.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Austin Startup

APRIL 1, 2017

out of state VCs Don’t rush a term sheet In assessing financing terms and interacting with their lead investors, most founders instinctively focus on two core things: economics and control. But because founders often have significantly narrower networks than their lead investors (who are repeat players), that is easier said than done.

Term Sheet 48

Term Sheet Institutional Investors Technical Review Lead Investor 48