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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Always have been.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. 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.

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Convertible Debt: Worst Form Of Seed Financing — Except For All The Others

Gust

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.” ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .”

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

TechCrunch

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV. And all we do is fintech.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Invested Interests. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? . June 19th, 2012. Invested Interests. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. 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.

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