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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. They have advice to share. Ask them for advice.

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What I did on my summer vacation: The First LP Close ($3.5mm) of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways. VCs pitch for money, too.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. We had a specific goal in mind. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

TechCrunch

This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. of the funding raised since 2009, while Latinx female founders saw only 0.4% So, if you’re a female founder faced with the prospect of pitching to VCs — what steps can you take to set yourself up for success?

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Startups and Venture Capital: What Do They Spend Their First Round On?

StartupNation

In fact, VC-based funding has boomed within the last decade, reaching a whopping $753B worth of investments since 2009. Must-Read: 5 Terms That are Killing Your Startup’s Pitch. Read on to find out more about the advantages and disadvantages of VC funding and some of the smartest places to invest it within the business.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

I started out as a lawyer, corporate finance lawyer, for about two and a half years. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Same thing.