Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
If you do a capped note it’s bad for the entrepreneur. But Paul Graham really did have a point in his “ high resolution fundraising ” post – that there is a problem – particularly in angel financing – with herding cats. I recently wrote about my views that startups rounds should be priced.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 21, 2011
Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. peerbackers. Quipu Applications.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 25, 2011
So pervasive has this thinking become that on several occasions startup companies with profitable & fast growing services businesses have come to me wanting to show me the product businesses they created internally to see whether they would be financeable or whether they might be able to create “spin outs&# that could be financed.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 10, 2010
Niel and I hammered out a second financing in similar fashion (again around the Foundry conference table, this time without the need for an angel roadshow). It’s a great example of how we like to work with entrepreneurs – especially those that we have a long history with.
Startup Company Lawyer
MARCH 14, 2010
Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). My general opinion is that anything that makes the financing process faster and easier or otherwise educates entrepreneurs is a good thing. (A In a typical venture financing, there is a voting agreement that governs how specific board seats will be filled.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 16, 2010
As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.
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