Aggregator Entrepreneur Lead Investor 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
It should help some entrepreneurs to better access early-stage capital and should allow some angel investors better access to deal flow. In Jason’s mind half of the VC industry will now disappear as entrepreneurs flock to him and to Dave Morin for their money. It’s hard to be a great lead investor .
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 1, 2021
As entrepreneurs with a passion for helping others, they’ve built a company that is vastly accelerating the ability to deliver healthcare to the most needy global communities. We are always interested in engaging with both investors and partners that share our vision – to help us really take this forward and scale.
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View from Seed
JANUARY 7, 2020
About a year ago, my partner David Beisel talked about how seed fundraising is no longer a local game , and that the best entrepreneurs seek out the best investors for them outside of their home market. That being said, it’s much easier to put a seed round together when you have a local lead who can help catalyze the round.
Genuine VC
JULY 10, 2012
There are essentially two distinct basic strategies for startup entrepreneurs to raise a seed round of capital: Subscription approach – An entrepreneur sets a structure (usually a convertible note) and recruits individual angel investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor.
Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 9, 2019
Pro rata rights are relatively standard and non-controversial; however, founders should try to limit such rights solely to “Major Investors” (which is typically defined to include only those investors that will own a substantial number of shares – e.g., a lead investor).
Hippoland
JANUARY 4, 2017
Lawyers can charge as much as $10k-$30k (in the US) to draft and execute the legal docs for an equity round, and traditionally, founders are responsible for paying for this as well as investors’ legal costs! So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done.
www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Coats says they each had spent more than a decade in venture investing at that time, and agreed that the process of funding new companies had become “way too time-consuming” for entrepreneurs and most VCs.
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