All Entries in the "Angel Investing Basics" Category

Profiting From Promising Startups: Improving the Odds (Part 1)

You’re wealthy and wired. You just read Become an Angel Investor in 2010: An HBS Framework and 2010: The Ultimate Buyers’ Market for Investor. You’re getting antsy. You’re ready to invest in a startup. You’re ready to tap into your Rolodex and pave the road to success for any startups that cross your desk.
Whoa. Slow [...]

Shark Tank (Part 2): 5 Things the Show Gets Right

[Guest post by Brant Bukowsky, the founder of GrowthPartner.com -- a firm that provides angel investment and online marketing expertise to emerging companies. A serial entrepreneur, Bukowsky and his team have built three Inc. 500 companies in the last five years. He blogs at Angel Investment Journal.]

This is the second in a two-part series.

In Part [...]

Shark Tank (Part 1): 5 Things the Show Gets Wrong

[Guest post by Brant Bukowsky, the founder of GrowthPartner.com -- a firm that provides angel investment and online marketing expertise to emerging companies. A serial entrepreneur, Bukowsky and his team have built three Inc. 500 companies in the last five years. He blogs at Angel Investment Journal.]
This is the first in a two-part series.
ABC’s reality [...]

Founder Collective: Chris Dixon’s Seed Investment Firm

Although the adventures of Chris Dixon in the world of venture capitalism might make an interesting read by themselves, the newest feather in Dixon’s cap is what caught my attention.
Dixon has founded 2 successful Internet companies in New York over the last 4 years. Dissatisfied with the venture capital market, however, he has now teamed [...]

Thealzel Lee of VANTEC: Backing Life Sciences Companies

What’s it like to back a life sciences company? What should investors expect before investing in the bio/health sectors? Who’s entitled to be called an “angel investor”?
These are some of the questions Thealzel Lee will answer in this interview.
Lee is the senior partner of Rocket Builders, a management consulting firm that sponsors Vancouver Angel Technology [...]

Angel Investing: Dilution Preventive Measures (Part 3)

This is Part 3 of our quest to answer a reader’s question on dilution.
The reader writes -
How do you prevent being washed out as you keep pro-rata and the numbers get increasingly bigger?
Suppose you invest $200k for 25%. The venture then raises $5m, so to keep pro rata you do $1.25m of that round. Then [...]

Angel Investing: Dilution in a Down Round (Part 2)

A reader recently asked about dilution and we decided to answer it in 3 parts. Part 1 looks at dilution in an up round; this part examines dilution in a down round; and Part 3 goes over some of the measures you can take to minimize the impact and likelihood of dilution.
Here’s the question:
How do [...]

Angel Investing: Dilution in an Up Round (Part 1)

A reader writes –
How do you prevent being washed out as you keep pro-rata and the numbers get increasingly bigger?
Suppose you invest $200k for 25%. The venture then raises $5m, so to keep pro rata you do $1.25m of that round. Then it raises $15m. Eventually it gets hard to follow you money and you [...]

Rob Delman of Golden Seeds: Due Diligence Tips for Angels

In Part 1 of the interview, Rob Delman, managing director of Golden Seeds New York, told us the benefits of investing in women-led ventures, shared his lessons learned and pointed out a critical term in a term sheet that many might have overlooked. Today, Delman the “Golden Dude” talks more about due diligence, an area [...]

Rob Delman: Remove nepotism from investment opportunity

A month ago just before Christmas, Rob Delman of Golden Seeds (aka the “Golden Dude”) played Santa and dropped a gift packed with pitch preparation tips (for angels) down our chimney. We loved it and so did you. It’s a given – we’re very greedy when it comes to angel investing tips and insights. So [...]