Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2024

Ever get bad advice? Ever take that advice without question because the person giving it was an investor, a superior in rank, the chairperson of your board? I’ll bet you have at least one story of bad advice taken and being bitten as a result. We all have in our past. But I digress. What went wrong? What went wrong?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2019

Taking board seats? Figuring out how you’ll spend your fully loaded time is something any LP will want to understand in order to know if you can handle going from just angel investing or doing whatever you were doing before to running a portfolio full time. Want to only invest in diverse boards? For how long?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing. As Fred points out in his post: “Angels love to share deals with each other. It is how angel rounds come together.&#. Or put another way – angels look for social proof from other angels. So what are you waiting for?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz. Tags: Start-up Advice. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

It was thrilling for these angels to find a young entrepreneur with an idea for a business that seemed so destined for greatness that the angels invested over $1 million on the condition that the group receive two board seats and one observer seat on the start-up’s board. Email readers continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

On the former I mentioned a video that I shot for This Week in VC talking about how Farb Nivi solved this problem: “Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.&#. if you need advice on how to find / work with startup lawyers cheaply click that link).

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff speaks with Marsha Dawood, chair of the Angel Capital Association Board of Directors, regarding the advantages of angel funding to finance and launch a business. Marsha, we believe at the Business Beat that angel funding is the most important type of funding for the earliest stages.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

He tells the story of his baptism by fire in startup-dom, a series of negotiations including office rent, sublet, getting people on board, getting the media to care, dealing with recruiters, dealing with the tech prima donnas, and (a favorite of many) “dealing with pesky VCs.” It seems like good advice to me. I like that.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Valuations are generally higher in Silicon Valley; term sheets are different; capital sources are different; building a management team and Board of Directors requires a different strategy; and I’ve just begun to scratch the surface. The Valley is a magical place where all pieces of the entrepreneurial landscape come together.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We manage PEVCtech , a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. Our team has a history of investing in diverse and underrepresented founders.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Incredible Organizational Change, Growth and Advocacy: a Look at the ACA Success and Goals For 2024 Despite the volatility brought about by the pandemic, economic uncertainty, market fluctuation, bank failures and a myriad of other difficulties, the ACA has powered through to continue to be the voice for the art and science of angel investing.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

“If you believe VR and immersive computing is the future — whether for consumer or business use cases — Activision helps Microsoft build a flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board to this future.”. Changes to corporate investing rules could diminish China’s resilient venture landscape.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. My advice to people early in their career is pretty simple: your mission isn’t to pursue a career, it’s to discover it. AM: Angel investing was our collective gateway to building Coalition.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Editor’s Note – This story originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review by Sharon Fisher and reposted with permission by the Angel Capital Association. To many Idaho companies, Kevin Learned isn’t just an icon, he’s ang angel. That includes teaching course sin entrepreneurship at Angel University.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In February, ACA took its work to the hill when ACA Board Member Eli Velasquez and ACA Member David Olivencia testified before Congress as part of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets hearing on how the accredited investor definition unfairly limits investment access for the non-wealthy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Many startup companies hire advisory boards. So do advisory boards really add value? In my experience most advisory boards under deliver relative to expectations. My main advice to you if you’re considering it is don’t waste much equity on it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. Angel investing, venture capital and mentoring. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

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. If you walk around to a bunch of board rooms, or I’m in a bunch of angel investments, and I think “pipeline” is the word of the year.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. For example, Jason Calacanis shares in his book Angel the compensation structure for Sequoia’s Scout program: 45% of returns are given to the Scout, 50% to Sequoia, and the remaining 5% to a bonus pool for other Scouts in the program. See Angel Investing 101.

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