Author Archive for The Hyper Team @ Venture Hype
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Super Angel Jeff Clavier: Consumerization of Enterprise Software
Super angel Jeff Clavier recently offered his opinion on the latest software trends likely to influence enterprises. He pinpointed some major drifts he expected to see across the enterprise software landscape, and his opinion carries weight. Clavier vetted enterprise solutions for the financial industry from 1988 to 2000. And he’s invested in over 75 startups [...]
Mind to Market: Investing in University Technologies (Part 1)
University breakthroughs can have broad commercial applications and substantial impact on the economy – provided they’re successfully transferred to the market. Visionary individuals and businesses of all sizes have been transforming, or trying to transform, innovative university technologies into merchantable products and applications to promote economic growth and/or create money-making opportunities. Bill Payne, trainer of [...]
Secondary Marketplaces: What Does the Future Hold?
A recent article at WSJ highlights the “explosion” of marketplaces for sourcing deals, and buying and selling shares of private, venture-backed companies. The launch of InsideVenture in 2008 was the catalyst for the emergence of these secondary marketplaces. The article draws upon information gleaned from leading platforms SecondMarket and SharesPost. “[As] opposed to large institutional [...]
Angel Investment Process: Where Do IP Attorneys Come In
Back in April, we met a patent attorney through Greg George, who suggested we do a post on intellectual property. Law? IP? *yawn* Before you doze off, wait! This patent attorney happened to be McGarry Bair’s (@McGarryBair) Tom Williams (@RealGTom), who’s fun, witty, and enthusiastic – not your typical lawyer. In fact, McGarry Bair isn’t [...]
2010 ACA Summit: Angels and VCs – Friend or Foe?
Thanks goes to Wall Street Journal‘s Russell Garland for taking us to the recent 2010 Angel Capital Association Summit in San Francisco and recounting how angels and VCs rivaled for the top spot. We all like a good scrum! According to Garland, attendees listened intently to speeches about the need for angel and VC harmony, [...]
IP Mistakes Startups Make That Could Jeopardize Your Angel Investment
In Part 1 of the interview, Implications of IP for Angel Investors, patent attorney Tom Williams (@RealGTom) of McGarry Bair (@McGarryBair) provided a summary of various forms of intellectual property (IP) and explained how IP produces money-making opportunities. Here, he’ll talk about several common mistakes startups make, provide an overview on IP insurance, and point [...]
Startup Acquisitions All Time High: Bloomberg Video with Mark Heesen
Quick Notes Venture capital investing is up 41% in the 1st quarter this year vs. a year ago Number of startup acquisitions is at an all time high Quantity and quality of acquisitions are good 14 to 15 IPOs in 1st quarter, compared to 18 IPOs in the last 2 years Quality of IPOs – [...]
Super Angel Ron Conway – Nice Guys Don’t Always Finish Last
Ron Conway is the Robert Pattinson of angel investors. Hell, if Conway had a gig on Twilight he’d turn all the bad vampires into good ones! So how did the angel investor who endowed Google and PayPal become so very successful? Conway is often referred to as the messiah of angel investors worldwide, and according [...]
Tom Williams of McGarry Bair: Implications of IP for Angel Investors
As an angel, you play with your own money and make bets on your dime. You take calculated risks and take precaution steps to reduce known risks. That’s how you protect your investments and improve the odds of success. Product risk is one of the investment risks inherit in angel investing. You want to reduce [...]
Investing in SaaS Ventures (Part 5): The 5 Cs of SaaS Finance
This is the final installment of a series on Investing in SaaS Ventures. Which was born from a question and suggestion from a dear reader, Taliba M. Taliba is a new angel investor who’s ready to make her second investment. She wants to place a bet on a SaaS startup but feels that she can’t [...]
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