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 ...
All too often, founder leadership issues are more the cause of new venture Read about these topics: 1. Autocratic leader who sets arbitrary goals with no input. 2. Co-founder and advisors are picked from loyal associates. 3. Founder minimizes the focus on formal plans and reviews. 4. Weekly staff meetings become working crisis sessions. 5. Founder ...
I started to realize that Demo Days might be getting stale when an investor at one of our events told me to share the highlights after the pitches were done — he would be out in the hallway with a beer. Another time, an investor said he wanted to quit his job and build a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Founders are often puzzled by how VCs derive valuations for competitive Series A rounds. A competitive Series A round is an equity round where a company generally raises greater than $5 million led by a top-quartile venture capital firm. During these Series A rounds, it is not uncommon for founders to receive multiple term sheets from lead investors at different ...
According to First Round Capital, a top venture capital firm located in Philadelphia, PA, women founders outperform men. In a report published by the firm yesterday, First Round Capital revealed the finding as one of ten major insights it has learned over the past ten years the VC firm has been in operation. Called the ...
Just as with names of people, there isn’t any ultimate right or wrong, and every name has unique implications in different cultures, economies and markets. Names can imply strength, value, connection or friendliness, or they can set opposite tones. As you search for that perfect name, it pays to avoid the key mistakes that we investors and ...
While a single sentence may convey the overarching direction of your business plan, you may also need to develop an elevator pitch that combines a few additional concepts into a paragraph so that you can better describe your plans. Here is a ‘paint by numbers’ approach that may help you put your plan into a ...
“Coin-operated idiots”. Even if no one says it out loud about sales people anymore, they might still think it. It’s the perception some startup CEOs have when it comes to their sales force (unless the founders have come from sales themselves). Just load ‘em up and watch them do their mindless best … like at ...