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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further.
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Gust
DECEMBER 13, 2011
I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. Will that trend hold in 2011?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 27, 2023
In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. million in seed funding (5.1 Chroma did.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2011
Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. Dr. Carl Schramm, Kauffman CEO , recently said that startup formation is stagnant or even decreasing in the US in the second half of 2011. It appears to me that there are about 100 Super Angels in the US.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. B) That the people who are trying to profit off innovation--the entrepreneurs and VCs--for whom there is no criteria to try your hand at it, are generally sucking at it.
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