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Alliott Cole of Octopus Ventures: Winning Competitive Deals
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 [...]
Think Twice About Funding Pure-Play Startups
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 [...]
Startup Scrutinizing Secrets of “Super Angel” Jeff Clavier
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 [...]
Joshua Schachter: Small Angel Round Smells Like Lifestyle Business
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 [...]
Del.icio.us’ Joshua Schachter – Not Your Average “Junior” Angel Investor
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. [...]
Didier Leconte: Commercializing University Technologies (Part 2)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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