Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). There is some correlation here, but not complete alignment, to check size (i.e.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

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. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

It’s likely that the investors don’t know you, so try and find warm intros from people in your network. Some startups are more interested in mentorship and network than they are in money. Network and talk to people. Use your network #1: do you know someone who we may know and respect (eg.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Rather, they followed a proven, methodical process.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. TaKaDu’s solution is very flexible, easy to set up and easy to use,” said Rob Casey, Strategic Network Performance Manager at Thames Water in the United Kingdom.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I’m helping clients conduct these tests, I almost always find that a great way to start is by offering user-sets different login options to determine which social network APIs should be implemented. The only way to accurately find out which of these networks and identity providers should be offered is through testing. Movie Lists.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This tool also includes basic social network analysis (building friend/follower information, twitter profiles etc]. Money and Finance Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Networking. social networking. Global Syndication Partners. For more information see [link]. February 9, 2012 15:05:56. Flag this comment.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” If you can’t think of a compelling format, go with something like, “I noticed you’ve covered location-based networks quite a bit at Publication X, and I think you’d be interested in learning about how my startup is changing that space by [fill in blank].” Money and Finance Lists. Social Networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

Despite the recent growth of crowdfunding, angels continue to be one of the major sources of financing for new ventures, so it behooves every aspiring entrepreneur to understand who these people are. Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Rostan agrees — he thinks coworking spaces can be great for networking, but he says he spends so much time on the phone that he probably wouldn’t get to network that much. . “But that seems more of a luxury than a necessity.&# Plus, a lot of coworking spaces offer classes and seminars on new technology and tools. &

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

HBR Blog Network. Never Say No to Networking. When new entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I sometimes tell them to NYFO — Network Your Face Off. million users in less than a year, can be directly traced back to connections Ive made and help Ive received from a network that is vast, diverse, and active. The Magazine.

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Networking New York City Syndicate Syndication 109

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 128

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

Gil Eyal, CEO, HYPR , recommended, “The “commercial” world of influencer marketing is centered in Instagram and Youtube (with some spillage towards smaller networks like Snap, TikTok and Twitch). I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2012

Old Boy's Networks" aren't things you write about, especially if you're part of one. One thing though which works wonders in the Valley is the "network" of connections you have there amongst VC's. When funds regularly work together, they can pool their resources and knowledge as well as networks to generate better returns.

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Networking Germany Europe Syndicate 93

View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform. Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2014

d) AngelList Syndicates : I haven’t seen any Syndicate take the entirety of a seed round yet but I’m sure it’ll happen. And here there’s an aspect of ‘per deal’ economics that could serve as motivation since carry occurs on each deal and not the total dollars invested by the Syndicate lead.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

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. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Dumb Money - Are we as dumb as we look?

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Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital 32

Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

In the intervening years while I pursued a career investing in startups rather than creating them, Josh continued as an entrepreneur starting a handful of companies including early social networking site Sconex, successfully sold to Alloy Media. Series A financing. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M

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Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Social Network 118

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

We are syndication agnostic, being indifferent between investing by ourselves or with co-investors – especially our partner funds – where we mostly have long and successful relationships. We refer to B and C rounds as early growth – essentially financings with valuations between $50m and $300m pre-money.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re not showing up at all the events, putting out content, constantly networking, generating enough deal flow—more specifically enough high-quality deal flow—being able to co-invest next to experienced professionals can really boost your funnel. Option #2 Do 50/50 angel investing and fund investing.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. You can find that here.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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VC Adventure

JULY 23, 2013

It’s hard to get people interested in a new social networking idea these days (even those who say that privacy is important). All these years I’ve financed my business with SBA and bank loans. There’s a big opportunity we need help with (not sure if that’s the right lingo or not). Any interest?

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SBA Syndicate Syndication Email 118

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

The ratings agency noted that the improvement in public finances reflects both revenue growth as a result of buoyant output, as well as expenditure control, resulting from the adoption of new fiscal rules. Given that, the central government deficit fell to 3.8% of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6% of GDP from 79.3%

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Israel Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Marc Andreessen discussed this issue at the 2016 Startup School : The argument in favor of the warm referral is that it’s the first test – it’s the first test of the ability to basically network your way to the investor. Tip #2: Hustle and Build Your Network. at 7:33). They want to be introduced to you.”. In a word: hustle.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Services like Angel List syndicates are disrupting angel investing and reducing the traditional information costs and access issues that have made angel investing more work. We are extremely fortunate to finance the growth side of the creative destruction we are witnessing all around us.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

With the advent of more open, standard financing documents, it’s also more possible for founders to just set terms themselves and have investors subscribe. Related to 3, the potential to fill out rounds gets easier and easier with the rise of alternative financing sources like Angelist, FundersClub, and others.

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Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home. Most angel deals happen in syndicates (meaning multiple investors participate), yet many angels are extremely poor at working together with other potential investors.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Colorado 48