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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. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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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. Either of these are obviously fine in angel deals. the diversity problem.

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

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Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups

TechCrunch

Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast.

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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.

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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.