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“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” 18 Aug 2012 | 04:59 am
Title is quote from Barack Obama, speaking in Roanoke, Va., July 13, 2012 Are you kidding me? What a silly, uninformed statement to make! Wouldn’t you think that one of the jobs of the President of ...
Visiting Angels and Entrepreneurs in Northern Europe 20 Jun 2012 | 12:47 am
My wife, Ann, and I visited Ireland, Russia, Estonia and Finland, from mid-March to mid-April (2012), sharing experiences in angel investing through lectures, discussions and workshops. We met passio...
The Road to Crowdfunding Hell 20 Jun 2012 | 12:38 am
It is remarkable to me the lack of rational analysis about equity crowdfunding. Sure, crowdfunding “sounds like” an easy source of capital for startup entrepreneurs, leading to happy entrepreneurs, d...
The Berkus Method: Valuing an Early Stage Investment 28 Mar 2012 | 10:46 am
Dave Berkus has just published the most recent version of his method for establishing a pre-money valuation for early stage companies. See his blog at The Berkus Method: Valuing an Early Stage Invest...
Southwest Angel Summit – April 1-2, 2012 13 Mar 2012 | 09:36 am
If you angels can fit April 1st and 2nd into your busy schedules, here is a dynamite meeting annually held in Tucson and hosted by the Desert Angels: http://southwestangelsummit.org/. I have attende...
Follow-on Funding: A Dilemma for Angel Investors 13 Feb 2012 | 08:45 am
In 2007, Professor Rob Wiltbank reported in Returns to Angel Investors in Groups that angel investors made follow-on investment in about 30% of their invested companies. It was surprising for me to le...
Average Round Size in Angel Deals 4 Feb 2012 | 01:51 pm
The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire has been publishing statistics on angel investing for decades. Over the past several years, the numbers of US companies funded by an...
Protecting IP in Crowdfunded Deals 26 Jan 2012 | 03:04 pm
Angels and venture capitalists will not sign non-disclosure (confidentiality) agreements just to listen to an entrepreneur’s funding presentation, or even to read the entrepreneur’s business plan. Se...
A Bubble for Seed Stage Valuation 20 Jan 2012 | 08:31 am
When entrepreneurs raise equity capital for startup companies, the investors’ percentage of ownership is determined by the negotiated valuation for the company at the time of investment. For example,...
Limiting the Number of Shareholders in Private Companies 20 Jan 2012 | 08:26 am
The U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, section 12(g), generally limits a privately held company to fewer than 500 shareholders. The assumption has been that companies with 500 investors are quasi...
