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University Technology Transfer: Smart Managers Do Creative Deals
There are 2 models in the field of technology transfer, writes Bill Payne, a veteran angel investor and an Entrepreneur In Residence at BNZ University of Auckland Business School. Innovations from research labs are either transferred to established corporations or startup ventures. The goal is to transform innovative technologies into marketable products and applications to [...]
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 [...]
Convertible Debt: A Look at the Angel Deal Structure
Nasim writes: From my understanding, preferred equity and convertible debt are the two main investment vehicles currently used in angel investments. I’m confused as to how to structure my seed investment. The entrepreneur and his lawyer press for convertible notes…that convert into common…but I recall from one of your articles that experienced investors think notes [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Bruno Bensaid: “Startups need cash, then value. No cash, they die.”
Whether you visit news sites or flip open the newspaper, you’ll see that Chinese entrepreneurs and the state of economy in China are garnering some serious ink. To learn more about China’s angel investing scene and general investing practices, Venture Hype got in touch with Shanghai-based investor Bruno Bensaid. Bensaid is the founder of MobileMonday [...]
How to Value a Startup Part 9: Alphabet Soup
If you’ve been following our “How to Value a Startup” series (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), you already know that we recommend a collage method that helps angels derive a number of valuations to get a fuller picture of the “art.” We’ve been on the quest for numerous valuation models and [...]
How to Value a Startup Part 8: Weighty Issues
This is post number 8 in a series of posts (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) about valuations. By now you’ve read that we embrace a “collage” valuation model that helps you arrive at several approximate valuations and gives you an idea about a potential investment’s worth. Comments from all of you have [...]
How to Value a Startup Part 7: Simple Simon Met a Pieman
“Would you rather have a big piece of a small pie or a small piece of a big pie?” was the question posed to me early in my career. I always wondered: “Exactly how big are these pieces of pie? That is the question in this post; the next in a series of posts (part [...]
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