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16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz

Aug

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 ...

Access To Capital — By: Karen Letain & Ken Kousky

Aug

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 ...

The Advantages Of Belonging To An Angel Group – Forbes

Jul

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 ...

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

Jun

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 ...

Tips for New Angel Investors

May

2012

Now that Facebook has gone public, there’s a lot of newly created wealth on the scene. History has shown that newly creates wealth shops the startup scene like a kid in a candy store. Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they’ll do 70% of all of the angel investments they’ll ...

Ideal first round funding terms

May

2012

My last 2 posts were about things to avoid, so I thought it might be helpful to follow up with something more positive. Having been part of or observed about 50 early stage deals, I have come to believe there is a clearly dominant set of deal terms. Here they are: – Investors get either ...

Valuation and Option Pool — Understand the trade off

May

2012

One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation. As my friend Mark Pincus likes to say, “it’s just another way to lower the price”. I’ll accept that critique. And ...

Start an Angel Group – Angel Resource Institute

Aug

2011

As more and more investors and communities recognize the benefits of establishing angel groups, it’s important to have resources that ensure that they don’t have to recreate the wheel. The Kauffman Foundation and ARI have developed tools that will help groups in formation get a quicker and more effective start. This page includes many practical ...

Best Practices for Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs by Basil Peters

Oct

2008

Angelblog is devoted to the development of best practices for angel investors and entrepreneurs. Its goal is to facilitate profitable, fair and enjoyable interactions between angels and entrepreneurs. After being an active angel investor for about fifteen years, I realized that many of the discussions I was involved in were virtually identical to ones I’d ...

Best Practice Guidance for Angel Groups — Deal Structure and Negotiation

Aug

2008

Structuring the deal is a key aspect of completing an angel round of financing. It is critical to ensuring that management, employees, past investors, current investors and future investors are all satisfied with the company under its new capital structure. As a result, negotiating and structuring the deal can be the most complex aspects of ...