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Current State of Angels and Boards of Directors

Angel Capital Association

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. In the latter case, returns improved by 20%. with an average of 5.7

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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members).

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What Makes a Great Independent Board Member?

Both Sides of the Table

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. This post sets out how I believe founders (and investors) should think about independent board members having worked with many of them for the past 20 years. The board is where large equity investors get their representation.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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New York Angels’ Tech Stack

David Teten VC

This is part of PEVCtech ‘s series on investment management firms’ tech stacks. (I I met Liz and Jon when I presented recently to the New York Angels on VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments.) We mostly use it for collecting votes and gathering signatures on documents.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. We knew that when her fellowship ended, we needed to bring someone on board who was solely focused on this work. Not all service providers will be on board with the initiatives. Challenges.