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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. We’re back in the “feel good angel&# phase.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. So where are we now?

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

Still, as a VC I value proprietary dealflow & long term relationships. I know it was over heated when a deal where I wrote one of the first checks on (as an angel, not VC) went out on AngelList. Mostly, I don’t believe that a VC not being on AngelList is “anti entrepreneur&# – it is not.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

So we’d love your thoughts on maybe just advice for companies rebuilding their partnership orgs or they’re developing their sophistication on the ELG front. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up. Sarah Wang: Absolutely.

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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.