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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. First Round Capital requires Second Round Capital.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

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The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. This is the same with angel investing. Easier to start companies, yes. Total disruption on the funding market?

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. No Dave S. =

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Making sense of Klarna

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“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.