Dream It

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In this guest Dreamit Dose, Jason Calacanis (@jason), a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular podcasts This Week in Startups and Angel, answers the top 5 questions he gets about angel investing. We hope we could answer your questions about angel investing.

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 14, 2019

It feels like there is more written about angel investing lately than ever before. This form of early-stage investing seems to be having its 15 minutes of fame. As someone who worked with venture capital in the run-up to the first dot.com boom and is presently an active angel and co-head of one of the largest and busiest U.S.

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JUNE 10, 2015

More updates, more casual events, more exposure to portfolio companies, co-investing, etc., Being in a fund is not the same thing as angel investing. Of course, angel investing for most people isn't very fun past the first year. but you're still not pulling the trigger yourself. 2) The payback time is forever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. This is minutes 8-11.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. But just because you could see them everywhere doesn't make them an obvious venture bet--nor does it tell the story of how the round even came to be.

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2014

There are actually no angel investing ‘journals’ per se, because there simply are not enough active, professional angel investors to make a market. There are, however, quite a few blog posts on the subject, although most are written for an entrepreneurial audience, rather than angels themselves.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Today's top founders will undoubtedly start something new in the future, but they won't make up the majority of innovators going forward--just as prior generations of venture backed founders don't make up a majority of those who are succeeding today. I didn’t say venture investing was easy—but at least we got a look.)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

First Round Capital & True Ventures seem to spend as much time cultivated relationships with “second round capital” as they do entrepreneurs. Keith Rabois (mentioned in my previous posts on angel investors) is on record on GigaOm as saying how important VC backed deals are to him. And the best early-stage investors know this.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Assume you have the right factors to get angel investment: experienced team, good product-market fit, growth potential, defensibility, and a reasonable shot at a successful exit. This might seem awkward on this site, suggesting that you don’t want angel investment. But angel investment isn’t for everybody.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Figuring out how you’ll spend your fully loaded time is something any LP will want to understand in order to know if you can handle going from just angel investing or doing whatever you were doing before to running a portfolio full time. Will that increase the work? Here’s what my model said. This is actually easily referenced.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We recently started a series of posts on establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup companies for purposes of investment by seed and startup investors. The Venture Capital Method (VC Method) was first described by Professor Bill Sahlman at Harvard Business School in 1987 in a case study and has been revised since.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Just starting out angel investing? A device that mimics kidney function and miniature nuclear reactors that snap together like Legos both seemed like pie-in-the-sky ideas that I passed on when I first started out. Avoid these 7 mistakes. by Jenna Routenberg originally published on TechCrunch

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Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

All accredited investors using the Onevest platform must be verified as to their accredited status and must acknowledge and accept the high risks associated with investing in privately held companies and early-stage ventures. You must have the ability to bear those risks.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Breaking the “Impossible” at VVM When I was at Valley Venture Mentors, we set this BHAG: “In ten years, catalyze entrepreneurs to change the economy of Western Massachusetts by generating $1 billion in cumulative revenue and investment.” ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Unlike venture capital funds, they don't make money directly off the multiples of their return. They did quite well on their angel investment in Square. Rowe Price and Fidelity funds who bid the company up to ridiculous valuations in their pre-IPO rounds.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

More than ever, angel investors play an important role in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges, and they level the playing field in ways that support socioeconomic situations and diversity. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. Option #2 Do 50/50 angel investing and fund investing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 19, 2023

What I’ve learned from investing in 100 startups Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

There are actually no angel investing ‘journals’ per se, because there simply are not enough active, professional angel investors to make a market. There are, however, quite a few blog posts on the subject, although most are written for an entrepreneurial audience, rather than angels themselves.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

There are surprisingly few such conferences, for the very good reason that there are actually relatively few such people (venture capitalists and ‘professional’ angel investors) to attend them! But that said, here are the biggest (i.e., “only” events of their type): Business Angels. Venture Capitalists.

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APRIL 21, 2011

But I am also someone who is very colored by my past experience of seeing the venture implosion after the first bubble and walking through the fundraising tumbleweed of late 2008. Here's how you can prevent this NYC renaisannce from being a forest fire: Fail fast.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Marcia Hooper currently serves as a Partner of Branch Venture Group, LLC, an angel investing group focused on food startups, targeting food products, food technology, business services for food-related companies, ag-tech, and sustainability.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I began studying angel investing returns about 10 years ago as a result of a problem I couldn’t resolve: The investing world seemed certain that angel investors were rubes. Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. So which is it?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 10, 2019

I have worked in three venture capital firms over the last thirty-three years and am intimately familiar with the performance of the fifteen (ish) venture funds raised and invested by these three firms. And The Gotham Gal started angel investing around the same time, often writing the first check into startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

And I have been impressed with Steven Kaplan and others at University of Chicago (my alma mater), who have been encouraging entrepreneurship through the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship , through angel investing , seed conferences and changes in teaching. Venture Capital. Internationalization of Technology.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Long-term angel investing: Understanding capital requirements and how to find quality investments. But there’s a reason successful angel investors are few and far between: returns may take several years to materialize, and not all companies you want to invest in will want your money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As part of France’s budget for 2024, which was passed last week by the French government without a vote, France plans to create a new tax relief system for angel investments in tech startups. If you’re an angel investor in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . Investment.

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Gust

MARCH 26, 2014

As Ryan Lackey noted, having a lot of money is essentially irrelevant in this context, because that is not the way venture capital works. A venture capitalist (colloquially known as a VC) is a professional money manager who gets paid to manage *other* people’s money, not his or her own.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

I got to work with Brett for two years while I was investing at First Round, before I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. While most people trying to get into venture will tell you how much they know, their experience, or their instincts, Brett kept listening and learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

These notes graciously provided by Adam Besvinick , who is a summer associate at ff ventures run by the affable John Frankel , who will also be on the show soon. This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Don’t be tempted to overstate or hide trouble spots; it’s a huge red flag that investors will see through, sinking your prospects of attaining investment. Founders have a tendency to peg a much higher valuation to their company in a good economy. Resist the temptation! Marjorie Radlo-Zandi.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When I first started in venture capital, back in 2001, I used to fund funds. I worked for an institutional investor that invested in both venture capital funds and later stage growth deals. They raise larger and larger funds, for example, after building up a track record of successful angel investments.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Center for Venture Research. Super Angels. Venture Capital. $20 It is clear from this table that Friends and Family, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists provide 95% of the capital for new ventures. Angel investments range from $100,000 to $1.5 million in entrepreneurial ventures.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 28, 2021

org (also for non-Partners in VC), Venture University , Rebel One Ventures , Sutton Capital , VC Career Accelerator. Spearhead – $1m to back your angel investing. I recommend look at my exhaustive list for emerging VCs and private equity investors of Associations, Accelerators, Incubators, and Platforms.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. I was already investing in public stocks, bonds, and preparing to make my 1st home purchase. This was very insightful.

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