How connections that you don’t realize you have can help with funding. The role that confidence plays in the funding process. Tags: Funding Intervie If you read the recent announcement that UserVoice riased, $800,000 this program will help you learn the small changes that allowed them to do it. Marcus Nelson, the company’s co-founder, came to Mixergy to talk about the changes so his experience could help you if decide to raise money.

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You

Very few people fund individuals.  I Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more.  In And whenever I needed to round up signatures for future fund raisings it was difficult to track him down / get him to care.  The This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC . Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Last Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and [...] ...Tags: Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advic

few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding.  8221;  And I think this line of thinking has started to become conventional wisdom as outlined in Chris Dixon’s excellent blog post saying that you need to be careful raising seed money from a large VC fund . But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.  This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations.

There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents.  The This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC“. There’s The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests.  That That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog [...] ...Tags:

There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents.  The believe that there is a new breed of VC emerging including True Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and several others that have this founder / investor alignment ethos.  I This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests.  That

If you’re thinking about raising VC and have not yet started the process, you’ve probably already missed the boat for 2009. So why is Funding Season over for the rest of the year?  I’m betting these processes started much earlier and his firm was just finalizing what had been previously agreed during Funding Season.  This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital . I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital. 

Have you noticed how some entrepreneurs look at getting funding as the ultimate sign of success? Not only is funding not the finish line, but the mistakes you make when you get investors can cost you when you finally do get to the finish line and are ready to sell your company. Brandon has done stints as an operator at all stages of the funding cycle, and at Soros Private Equity, investing over $70M in technology deals. Brandon Watson came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money for his startup, how he grew it, and why he had to sell it. The two most powerful points