Gust

MAY 22, 2012

This is a good time to reflect on my experience with locally based angel investment. I just finished with the fourth of our annual angel investment event for my local group based in Eugene and Corvallis, Oregon. After four years of it, I now have small investments in four small local companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2019

If you’re lacking for track record as a firm, here’s three exercises you should walk through to help turn your pitch and due diligence meetings from guesswork into something more substantive. Obviously, that’s ideal, but that’s not where everyone starts. Will that increase the work? Here’s what my model said.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. I still prefer angel route 1 (above) but this is the next best option in my mind. You probably really do want to raise angel money. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice.

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