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, [...]
You’re wealthy and wired. You just read Become an Angel Investor: 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 down! [...]
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 [...]