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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

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I think you’ll also see more intentional syndication of seed and series A rounds with like-minded co-investors teaming up together and splitting rounds more intentionally. In a FOMO world, seed and series A investors are more likely to extend beyond the bounds of their stated strategy to get access to companies.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

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Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). With all that in mind, here’s Angel Bootcamp — The Blog Post Edition. There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. I’ll try to keep it very short and sweet, and keep in mind that this is just one person’s POV.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). With all that in mind, here’s Angel Bootcamp — The Blog Post Edition. There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. I’ll try to keep it very short and sweet, and keep in mind that this is just one person’s POV.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

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Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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What Is A Content Syndication Campaign?

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Content syndication is a perfect way of recycling high quality content. The content can be a written blog post, a video, and infographic, or in another creative format. . The post What Is A Content Syndication Campaign? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Building the Best Seed VC Syndicate in 2020: Navigating “Leaders” & “Fillers”

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In previous blog posts I’ve written about the two main approaches to building a seed round syndicate – the subscription method (where an entrepreneur presets a structure with a convertible note or SAFE and recruits investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor) and a term-driving lead investor approach.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

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In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars.

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