Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2024

Reaching back for an important lesson As one illustration among many I can recall, let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors. Had the angel board members been able to agree upon a financeable strategy for growth, the company might have been immensely successful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Like many other tech employees, the two software engineers held equity in startups they had worked for, cryptocurrency investments and other illiquid assets. How much can they afford to angel invest? Compound sees itself as a one-stop shop for its users to view their personal balance sheet, Gonen said.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2016

I met with a family office investor yesterday and we were talking about his family's interest in diversifying their investments into early stage companies. A lot of these people have started getting into the angel investing world. It's an asset class built on relationships. Something he said at the meeting struck me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

When Moran began angel investing, he found the whole process of startup fundraising to be confusing, so he started a venture podcast back in May 2014 called “ The Full Ratchet ,” to interview other VCs and provide funding transparency. TC: The current portfolio is largely enterprise/B2B, with a few notable investments in food tech.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Will you take investment from others? However, if you want to de-risk your investment as much as possible, use an accelerator or angel investment before self-funding. The maximum loan amount is $5 million, and the repayment terms can be up to 10 years for working capital and 25 years for commercial real estate.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Interest in alternative investments such as private equity, real estate and crypto continues to surge, and Miami-based fintech startup Allocations is riding the wave. In addition to increasing deal speed, Advani said another benefit of using Allocations is that managers can offer their clients lower investment minimums.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. In the investment community, this premium factor is called “goodwill” (also applied for a premium management team, few competitors, high barriers to entry, etc.).

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. By mid-2022 the index had quickly reversed from a founder to investor friendly investing climate. Did angels pull back from investing?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Etsy is headquartered in 55 Washington Street, which is owned by Two Trees--the real estate concern that pretty much created the DUMBO we know today. Alex Trautwig.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 29, 2018

As one illustration among many I can recall, let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors. Look ahead only a short time, and the new major shareholder ran into trouble overleveraged with his real estate investments and defaulted on his funding promises.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. But today, new growing sectors include crypto/web3, real estate tech, CPG and insurance technology. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The stats for women in investing are somewhat bleak. Only 11% of VC partners are women , and as a whole, women angel investors have only reached 22%. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA), there has been a big increase in women who are members just in the last few years. These numbers are only going to get bigger.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

We talked yesterday with the pair, who have already invested in 13 startups with the fund’s capital and, they say, led nine of those deals. This isn’t the 4 on 16 game that others are playing (where VCs invest $4 million at a pre-money valuation and so own 20% of the company). TC: Do you?

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Instead, as TC+ editor Alex Wilhelm reported , UBS “invested $69.7 The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” billion was scrapped. million in the company at a valuation that Wealthfront described as $1.4

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A wonderful resource for startups in fundraising mode that most people don’t know about is the Frank Peters Show , the only weekly podcast that is all about (and only about) the world of angel investing. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.)

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors. To put an ending to this story, the entrepreneur followed the suggestions of the new investor just as he had the angels, and accelerated quickly into more cities, again running out of cash.

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Gust

JULY 1, 2012

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. Real estate.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Venture capital is just equity--and it's equity that isn't widely available to everyone and it gets invested in by a wide variety of investor types with different strategies. Is there anything similar about two kids raising a 500k angel round with a prototype as compared to AirBNB getting its next $200 million growth round?

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Money gets soft circled all the time and rarely do we see angels back out unless the terms change. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. As an angel, do you reserve money for follow-on investments?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

” Reilly: You’ve been co-leading a research project on innovation in the investment management industry , which became an Institutional Investor cover story: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ”. I knew that executing this research, and then publishing it, would attract pertinent investment opportunities. .

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