Plenty of athletes have raw talent. But the ones who really succeed are those who are also coachable. Without that quality, even the most gifted potential star may be more trouble than he is worth. That is particularly true when it comes to the startup entrepreneurs you back. Great things happen when veteran angels pair [...]
Rich: In your book, Early Exits, you urge angel investors to invest in capital efficient companies. Is that what Cisco is talking about? * This is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Basil Peters. Download full report at Basil Peters Debunks Outright Lies About Startup Exits and M&As. Basil: Yes. Rich: What are those [...]
This is Part 4 of an 8-part series on royalty or revenue-based investment. Please visit Part 1 for links to the entire series. “Startup funding is hooked on exits,” says Thomas Thurston, president of Growth Science International. Thurston is right. Equity investors are “exit junkies.” Exits are how they make money. But in the aftermath [...]
It’s no secret that investors fight head over heels for sizzling deals and promising entrepreneurs to increase odds of success and potential returns. But when demand for quality deals exceeds supply, you better come up with exclusive, creative, or effective ways to lure the Steve Jobses of tomorrow. How to compete for hot deals? Are [...]
According to GigaOm’s Om Malik, angel investors are thinking twice about funding pure-play startups – single-platform focused companies whose profits often bypass investors and developers and go home with platform owners. When hot startups enter the market, entrepreneurs go crazy trying to discover new ways to capitalize on their success. Think Twitter. Think Facebook. Malik [...]
SoftTech VC’s founder and managing partner Jeff Clavier knows how to pick a winner. New angels may ask: How does this super angel weed out the roses from the thorns amongst all ‘em seemingly promising web companies? To Clavier, startup executives who can’t prove their healthy team dynamics probably won’t make the cut. In a [...]
We recently dived into Joshua Schachter’s “Ask Me Anything” at HackerNews to learn more about the founder of Delicious and the way he invests as an angel investor. He calls himself a “junior” angel who’s trying to figure out if he wants to become a professional investor someday, but the way he thinks and vets [...]
Delicious founder Joshua Schachter recently did an AMA (ask me anything) over at HackerNews. Only halfway down the discussions and you’ll realize that Schachter, a self-proclaimed “junior” angel who’s trying to figure out whether he wants to become a professional investor someday, vets deals much like those who’ve got decades of experience under their belt. [...]
Throughout history, innovations have transformed industries and turned impossibilities into realities. Technologies are key enablers of these transformations. In Mind to Market: Commercializing University Technologies (Part 1), we learned that technologies and inventions, when successfully translated into marketable products and applications, can have significant impact on the economy and create money-making opportunities. But with opportunities [...]
Jeff Clavier recently offered his opinion on the latest trends likely to influence enterprise software. He pinpointed some major drifts he expected to see across the enterprise software landscape, and his opinion carries weight. Jeff Clavier vetted enterprise solutions for the financial industry from 1988 to 2000. And he’s invested in over 75 startups in [...]
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