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How Angel Investors And Angel Groups Work

Sep

18

2019

Choosing the Right Angels for Your Fundraising Needs Angels are individuals. Along with that comes an enormous variety of unique personalities and perspectives. Angel groups can help create more consistency, structure and organization in investments, while streamlining and simplifying the fundraising process for entrepreneurs. Still, it is important to find the right fit. Factors to ...
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Angels · Finding Angels · How Groups Work

When an Eight-Figure IPO Windfall Can Mean a Zero-Digit Tax Bill

Aug

24

2019

Shares are eligible for Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) if they’re issued when a company has gross assets of $50 million or less. If you hold on to the stock for at least five years, you can avoid taxes on $10 million of any gains when you sell. But that $10 million is only a ...
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Selling Stock -- SEC Rules · Tax Incentives

QSBS · Qualified Small Business Stock

Investment Return Illustration: LLC vs. C Corp | CTAN

Mar

5

2017

Investment Return Illustration: LLC vs. C Corp First, it is not unlikely that an acquirer will insist on buying the assets of the company rather than the stock. Thus, they buy what is INSIDE the company (i.e. the “assets”), but not the stock of the Company itself. The Company receives the sales proceeds directly from ...
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LLC or C or S Corp? · Tax Incentives

16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz

Aug

23

2015

WITH JEFF JORDAN, ANU HARIHARAN, FRANK CHEN, AND PREETHI KASIREDDY We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company. Sometimes, however, the metrics may not ...
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Angel Primers · Business Plans · Pitching

startup metrics

Access To Capital — By: Karen Letain & Ken Kousky

Aug

2

2015

A really good primer on Angel investing equally applicable to angels and entrepreneurs. This was found at http://bluewaterangels.com/resources/. ACCESS TO CAPITAL 2 What’s Inside this eBook? Chapter 1 : Historical Overview………………………………………………………4 Where are the jobs?………………………………………………………………………4 No startups, no jobs……………………………………………………………………….5 No funding, no startups…………………………………………………………………..6 Only winners count………………………………………………………………………..7 Bring forth the gazelles…………………………………………………………………..9 The policy dilemma………………………………………………………………………10 What we need……………………………………………………………………………..11 ...
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Angel Primers · General Primers

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Venture Capital Returns

Jul

31

2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to ...
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Angel Investing Statistics · Expected Returns

statistics · valuation

The Pre-money vs. Post-money Confusion With Convertible Notes – Feld Thoughts

Jul

2

2015

The other day, Mark Suster wrote a critically important post titled One Simple Paragraph Every Entrepreneur Should Add to Their Convertible Notes. Go read it – I’ll wait. Or, if you just want the paragraph, it’s: “If this note converts at a price higher than the cap that you have been given you agree that in the ...
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Common Deal Mistakes · Convertible Notes

post-money · pre-money

Concerns of a note holder | Vincent Jacobs

Jul

2

2015

What angels may worry about when investing in convertible notes Much has been written about the advantages and disadvantages of raising funding using convertible notes versus equity, both for startups and for investors. At Kima Ventures, we often choose to invest using convertible notes due to the speed, simplicity and cost of the transaction but, ...
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Common Deal Mistakes · Convertible Notes

The Advantages Of Belonging To An Angel Group – Forbes

Jul

2

2015

Angel investing as an asset class is continuing to grow and many accredited investors want to learn how they can best get involved. When I’m asked that question I have one simple answer—start with a local angel group. There is no better way to simplify the complexities of angel investing than by working alongside like-minded ...
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Angel Primers · How Groups Work

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Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed | Talk Video | TED.com

Jun

8

2015

Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people’s, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others ...
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Angel Primers · Due Diligence · Videos

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