Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. So where are we now?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. This is the same with angel investing. Either of these are obviously fine in angel deals. the diversity problem.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.)
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised). thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 15, 2010
We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why. Short answer: no.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2023
Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. the free YC Startup School courses).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams.
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