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Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right businesspartner. You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your businessmodel, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. My businesspartner and I were elated.
He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. Some angelgroups charge you money to pitch your idea to them. Individual angels can get sucked into situations that a group's experience might have avoided.
They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn.
They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn.
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They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. Super Angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn.
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin businessmodels. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.
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As a member of the local angelgroup Selection Committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Businessmodel. Marketing, sales, and partners. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.
As a member of the local Angelgroup selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Businessmodel. Marketing, sales, and partners. Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same.
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There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the businessmodel is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. work at home. May 1, 2011 10:32 PM.
I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from AngelGroups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angelgroups and syndication of deals among groups. Labels: angelgroups , valuation. See you next time. Steve Bennet.
As a member of the local Angelgroup selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short – maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Businessmodel. Marketing, sales, and partners. Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same.
It’s to highlight some of the key parts of your opportunity and what makes it so amazing that whoever it is that you’re talking to, whether it’s a bank, or an investor, or a family member, or a potential businesspartner, that they are on the edge of their seat and they ask for your full plan, and they want to know more.
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