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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, 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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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses.

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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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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. the free YC Startup School courses).

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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. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.)

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

TechCrunch

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. Atarraya’s Shrimpbox aims to sustainably grow shrimp.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. Today, Austin is more than just the capital of Texas. For years it was known primarily for its software scene — in addition to being the live music capital of the world.