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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Note (1): For those not familiar with the geography of the SF Bay Area, the city of San Francisco proper sits at the north end of a peninsula that stretches down to the smaller city of San Jose. Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. link] Chris G.

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. As of now, the City of Austin’s startup density is greater than that of the Silicon Valley! And collaboration is a key piece in making Austin a hub for entrepreneurs, and is an unspoken rule.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My facebook can beat up your facebook. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft.