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Saturday, October 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . 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 .
This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
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. It is very difficult to raising venture capital between November 15 – January 7th. It’s worth you knowing this so you don’t waste your time. It’s also very important to understand so that you can properly plan when you raise money.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
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 [...]
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Friday, August 14, 2009
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 the best spokesperson for Tech Coast Angels that I have met to date), Tom McInerney (TGM) and Jarl Mohn (who invests on his own “account” and whose track record is truly humbling).
Very few people fund individuals. I This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Most people assume they need to raise venture capital to build a tech business. At 17-years-old, he couldn't legally drink, vote or even sign a contract, but that didn't stop Rahul Sood from launching a company. He just did it. He didn't have much money, but that didn't stop him either.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
It seems that while the larger investment community is finally focused on the problem of mega-funds that they are missing what is perhaps the bigger problem — the lack of early stage funding. If fees for all funds were reduced it is even less practical to run a small fund!
also agree that large funds cause most of the problem and huge fees are the Yesterday’s VentureBeat had an article suggesting that the old “2 and 20″ method of compensation should be changed. Unfortunately, they suggest that perhaps fees should be reset across
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Monday, August 17, 2009
There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. I 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.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Last week, I was on a panel with other investors discussing the “do’s� and “don’ts� of angel and venture capital investing some one from the audience fired a series of intriguing compounded questions � why are the VC’s so illusive?, So let’s talk about the truth about the Angles and the Venture Capital firms; here is a few points to start with: 1- Looking for Money Vs. why don’t they have all their information available? Why don’t they disclose how they come up with their valuations?
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
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
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time researching their market and customers. But, when it comes to raising money, they tend to approach anyone with a heartbeat! The problem with this approach is that a large majority of the investors you pitch are simply not appropriate for what you are doing or where you are as a company. So, any time you spend on them is wasted.
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