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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. May 7, 2011 03:24:52 Reply 0 Flag this comment LarryN1 Follow A good profile for most if not all hires.

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The Importance of Robust Angel Ecosystems

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The overall trend around angel investing is a pretty interesting one. I’ve talked about this trend before – specifically the acceleration of angel investing in 2011-2014. Angel investors need to do a better job aligning their outcomes with that of the companies in which they invest and the ecosystems they support.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

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One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. While this may certainly be the case with unsophisticated angels (much less of these now) or in cases with no lead investor, Id argue the opposite.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

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Touched by an Angel. I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. ► 2011. (7). Card Counting for Investors.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

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Monday, June 20, 2011. Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

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An excellent question to ponder as the school year begins, but the answer depends on whether you are looking for a plumber or an angel investor. Many of my students are finance majors, so I spend the first class with a (very) brief corporate finance review with the hint that very little applies to start-up finance.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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