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 [...]
A 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 that round. Then it raises $15m. Eventually it gets hard to follow you money [...]
There was a day not long ago when a venture capitalist wouldn’t even look at a deal if all the entrepreneur was seeking was a minimal investment to get the company off the ground. Such investments were too small to consider and hardly worth their time. While this may have posed a problem for the [...]
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