Talk with experienced angel investors, and you’ll realize that unless they have a trusted syndication partner across the border, proximity still matters. True, tech advancement and the falling cost of communication might have enabled investors to invest farther from home, but the effect might not be as significant as we think. After all, trust and [...]
Mark Suster of GRP Partners recently wrote about why it is probably not wise for super angels to dismiss or alienate VCs. As Suster points out, “It’s fun to have a villain – less fun when you need them.” Angel Investors and VCs Eat From the Same Trough Many angel investors in this day and [...]
Thanks goes to for WSJ‘s Russell Garland for taking us to the recent Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit 2010 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, [...]
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), [...]
What happens when an angel group comes across, or has in its portfolio, a high-potential company requiring an investment amount that’s too big for an individual group but too small for VCs? Most likely, it’ll engage in an angel group syndication, “a practice that allows groups to pool their funds to support larger investments” that [...]
Taliba M. writes: Made my first angel investment last year and ready to make my second. I’m very interested in this SaaS venture (a startup) but I do not have experience in this particular sector. How should I go about this? Also, would it be possible to request some SaaS topics? Thank you so much. [...]
Angel investing is one of those activities that can be done alone or with partners. Your risk tolerance and ability to work within the whims of other people can help determine how much you will want to stomach on your own or share with a group. You will be susceptible to other people’s gut responses [...]
You’re facing an angel investor’s dilemma. You’ve looked at proposal after proposal from early stage startups and finally, you found one. You feel it in your gut; after spending countless hours reviewing the deal, you believe that this company is on solid ground, and you want in. So where’s the dilemma? This startup needs more [...]
It would perhaps be naïve to think that the current state of the economy has been beneficial for anyone. While some may view the current status of the market as the perfect time to buy, others have been tightening the purse strings in response to their shrinking portfolios. These shrinking investments have not left angel [...]
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