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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My facebook can beat up your facebook. ► 2010. (7).

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft. ► January. (1). ▼ 2010. (7).

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. The investment network here is growing, but is still grossly developing when compared to those coastal cities. versus $10M+). However, Austin is well poised to catch up quickly.