TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

As cryptocurrency goes mainstream, attracting individual and institutional investors , digitally-savvy employers realize tokens are an increasingly attractive form of compensation, especially for their millennial staff. Once all the wallets are tagged, Sprout will have a token cap table ready just as it has done for equity ownership.

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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). Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. That’s what he knows best.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. Obviously. I think that’s sloppy. Connections.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed funding round led by Accel with a big group of business angels. You can also track your progress around a project with tags. In addition to Accel, 35 investors who tend to be operators in their companies are also participating. List of business angels participating in Folk’s seed round.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’m excited to announce that the Open Angel Forum is coming to NYC. So what is the Open Angel Forum? Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? I’ll be running Open Angel Forum NYC with Brian Alvey on April 8th, 2010. Apply here.)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Angels, GTMFund, and Lorimer Ventures. The custom categories are applied in real-time to automate “tedious” tasks such as the manual tagging and routing of support tickets, the processing of insurance claims and the dispatching of field engineers to incoming work order requests. Spain-born Jorge Penalva founded Lang.ai

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. Or a quick flip.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. The event last night in Los Angeles was great.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. Why many early-stage investors DO price rounds (e.g. prefer equity to convertible debt): If you’re an early stage investor (e.g. Here is my answer with some minor editing: _.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

They can add links to a website or tag users in the clip. Link tagging is handy for tapes for product reviewers and references to other social profiles of a creator — no need for “link in bio” here. Who can collab is also in the creator’s control.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Pinterest also introduced its own original video content, Creator Originals, and has been helping creators make money from their videos by tagging items for sale, participating in affiliate shopping programs, and engaging in brand partnerships, among other things. Prior to joining Pinterest, Vochi had raised $4.2

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. But you’re not an angel. Answer: Not much. It’s a shame.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Suse Reynolds, Angel Association New Zealand. Both of these liquidity options are about seeing the venture on to its next stage of value creation, while enabling those very early stage investors to recover their capital to deploy in the next generation of startup companies. Access your local angel network or club.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Still, when a fistful of investors pump a total of $100 million into an upstart, you’d best believe that even the most under-caffeinated reporter begrudgingly shoves some toothpicks to prop open their eyelids, and pays attention. The capsules are two-buck-pucks, with a price tag of around $2.00

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Tangerine Insurance also Etap’s underwriter, Graph Ventures, Newmont and several other angel investors participated in the round. To prevent fraudulent claims, the app comes with geolocation tags, timestamps and other features like crash notification. Image Credits: Etap.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment. This is the same with angel investing. I doubt it.

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JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. – This massive increase in seed & angel funding caused Paul Kedrosky to predict that there is a coming seed fund crash.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

The app’s idea was, effectively, to turn one of Instagram’s core features — photo tagging — into a stand-alone experience. But in its case, photo tagging wasn’t an afterthought; it was the full focus. That round was led by Floodgate and included other investors like SV Angel, Shrug Capital and various angels.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

They skip over “talk to customers” and God forbid, “teach myself to hack together a prototype to see if it works” It’s what I did as an entrepreneur (taking money first) and I can honestly say that we would have been better off vetting the product longer before asking for investor money. This is a good thing.

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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). Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. Not everybody agreed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

African impact-focused VC Atlantica Ventures , a co-lead investor in OnePipe’s $950,000 pre-seed round last year, also co-led this seed round alongside Tribe Capital and V&R Associates. New investors Canaan Partners, Saison Capital, Norrsken (the fund of Klarna founder Niklas Adalberth), The Fund and Two Culture Cap also participated.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

… Not too long thereafter the angel was back in, in a bigger round, no more tranche’s, with new investors to boot. Many become bitter at investors or circumstances. And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. And in life.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Last week, I got a chance to be the guy on the ground for Open Angel Forum NYC. Six companies and twenty angels were able to connect up without the friction and artificial scarcity created by the “pay to play” model and it was all made possible by the good folks at Joyent , Cooley , and Winter Wyman. What do we do with those?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. I believe that the different stages need to right-size, but you will always need the various stage investors. I actually think there is a small bubble going on in seed/angel rounds. Minutes 8 – 10. Minutes 23 – 26.

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JUNE 2, 2010

I’m not even going to bother downloading Venture Economics data because I know it’s going to be garbage—most angel rounds aren’t tracked very well. That being said, is it me, or do more and more entrepreneurs seem to out there in the market essentially skipping the 500k-ish angel round? million in the bank and way more expectations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over time, Playbyte’s feed shows you more of the games you enjoyed as the app leverages its understanding of in-game imagery, tags and descriptions, and other engagement analytics to serve up more games it believes you’ll find compelling.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. First: Is the price paid for shares by previous investors excessive, creating a post-money valuation too high for the actual value of the company? The enlightened professional investor. What VC’s can and cannot do.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s been a lot of debate recently in the market about what kind of investment structure is best for angel and seed arounds. Moreover, because of his investor relationships, YC has immense momentum around Demo Day. The investor water cooler occasionally falls victim to reputation racketeering.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Investors talk to each other. The best behaved investors will only call if they ask you first (for reasons of being burned by this in the past when I was an entrepreneur, I’m now pretty religious about asking and being totally transparent). But the majority of VCs & Angels all speak. I had asked them not to.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

We’re not necessarily sector investors, but we were really interested in finding a play that made sense here. It’s also exciting to be working with other local investors, RRE and DFJ Gotham on a deal together—and we’re glad they decided to join us for this round. It’s funny how deals come about.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. Angels have a much lower threshold for returns than do VCs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The startup, backed by Venture Highway and angel investors, was founded in April 2021 by college friends Anurag Varma, Parth Pareek and Mehul Dudi. The platform tags tasks to meetings, so designers have easy access to their context without having to each for it. As examples of what Loopin can do, Varma gave a few case studies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Series A investment is led by Ventech VC, along with Atlantic Labs, APEX Ventures, Space Capital, Lunar Ventures plus some additional angel investors. “For instance, if we want to track how river fronts are expanding, we have to look at data collected by satellites, sort and tag them in order to analyse them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. LA investors are more pragmatic. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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