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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

In these scenarios angels made great returns precisely because they didn’t need to dip their hands into their pockets a second or third time, their companies didn’t go bankrupt and they didn’t get buried in the cap tables by large VCs who put in “pay to play” provisions in tough times. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

In both of these scenarios angels made great returns precisely because they didn’t need to dip their hands into their pockets a second or third time, their companies didn’t go bankrupt and they didn’t get buried in the cap tables by large VCs who put in “pay to play” provisions in tough times. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform. . Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform. . Siemiatkowski left undeterred.