Author Archive for The Hyper Team @ Venture Hype
We're the monkeys behind Venture Hype. Articles published under our name are contributed by multiple members on the team. As they say, there's no "I" in "we"!
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 [...]
Angel Investing: Making News Right Now
New Service Aims To Enable ‘Peer-To-Peer’ Early Investing A group of executives from the financial-services industry has started what they call a peer-to-peer platform for early-stage investing, with the hope of connecting angel investors with promising startups. MicroVentures, which is funded by its founders, aims to charge startups US$99 for a basic listing on the [...]
Investing in SaaS Ventures (Part 4): Evaluating SaaS Startups
If you’ve been following the series, by now you should know that our reader, Taliba M. (almost feel like we know her personally after the series of articles!), wants to invest in a SaaS startup but doesn’t have experience in SaaS. She asked for our suggestions and we gave our 2-cents in Effective Ways to [...]
UNH Issues 2009 Angel Market Analysis
THE ANGEL INVESTOR MARKET IN 2009: HOLDING STEADY BUT CHANGES IN SEED AND STARTUP INVESTMENTS The Center for Venture Research at UNH has released a report [PDF] on the angel investor market in 2009. The report indicates that angels haven’t significantly decreased investment activity. But they’re committing fewer dollars due to lower valuations and a [...]
Angel Group Syndication Process Design (Part 2): Paul G. Silva
In Part 1, we talked about how angel groups are increasingly collaborating and co-investing with each other to increase investment size, reduce financial risk, and tap into the wisdom of the crowd. To give a vivid picture, we asked Paul G. Silva, managing partner of Angel Catalyst and group manager at River Valley Investors (RVI), [...]
Investing in SaaS Ventures (Part 3): Monetization Models
A reader, Taliba M., said she wants to place her bet in a SaaS startup but she isn’t familiar with SaaS companies. She asked how she should go about it and we suggested some ideas. Read Effective Ways to Invest in the Unknown for our complete response and the purpose of this series. (Obviously, you’re [...]
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