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Saturday, March 20, 2010
The fact is most funding pitches are terrible; they're more product pitches with an appeal for money tacked on at the end. still think big companies innovate.
a recent regional angel conference each group leader started off the session by introducing his network and sharing current trends, funding performance and membership growth; what was the most consistent comment from the leaders about their angel group members: "tired and tapped out". With a nod to Garage Venture's Guy Kawasaki and his Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists , I offer my Top Ten Lies Angels Tell . When
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Friday, March 19, 2010
in a funding round, which includes Morgenthaler Ventures, according to a regulatory filing this week. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. San Diego-based Elecelyx Therapeutics , a stealth mode biotech firm, has raised $1.2M The filing indicates the firm is looking to raised $2.2M in the round.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Reza Bundy , the founder of Venice-based Mota Motors , looks to be a major beneficiary of an IPO -- not of his current firm, but of his prior company, Iron Planet . Mota Motors is developing a service to help consumers buy and sell used automobiles; the firm has previously scored funding from Prism VentureWorks. In papers filed Thursday evening by Iron Planet, the Pleasanton-based firm said it is looking to raise up to $92M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market. Bundy founded Iron Planet, which is venture backed by Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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.
Marcus Nelson is the co-founder of UserVoice and is responsible for the company’s business development and marketing. UserVoice helps companies harness their users’ feedback.
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.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
His first big leap into entrepreneurship was launching Optiwave, a fiber optic consulting company. The simple answer is he learned to sell. This program will show you how he did that and what YOU can learn from his experience.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. To set the stage, as an early stage investor, I look to invest in a “perfect storm” company. So for an example lets assume a $500k investment in a company with Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob also teaches graduate level finance courses at Antioch University.
By Bob Aholt
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Very few people fund individuals. I Great companies are built by having great products. And One great company, AppFolio , filmed all of this user interaction and made the DVD available to me. Granted, Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. In 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
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Because as a potential A round investor I’m thinking to myself, “if the large VC seed investor has been in the company for 9 months and isn’t leading the round then something must be wrong. This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . This posting was inspired by an email from
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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 But it was my second company so I had already learned all o f the lessons the hard way.
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
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Friday, January 15, 2010
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. He got a credit card and took out $1,500.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
So why is Funding Season over for the rest of the year? 8221; Just like entrepreneurs they take calls from vacations, do board calls, handle company emergencies and urgent financings. 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.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light.
So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or
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Friday, February 26, 2010
To help me understand how the seed venture firm Y Combinator helps entrepreneurs launch and grow their startups, I invited not one guest as I usually do, but three founders of three different companies. I tried something new in this program. Each entrepreneur talked about how he got into Y Combinator, how the program helped launch his startup and what it did for him after he left the program.
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