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Jul
22nd

Fri

Why Valuations Are Getting Too High for Seed Stage Investors

Interesting read on the math of angel investing.

Tags: venture capital angel investing

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Jun
23rd

Thu

There are about 50-100 exits above $100 million, vs about 1000 early-stage investments (via A VC: There Aren’t Many Exits Over $100mm)

Tags: venture capital angel investing

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Mar
24th

Thu

Profitably | Blog: A Tale of Two Financings

profitably:

Boom.

Profitably just closed $1.1M, and I think I am feeling every emotion at once. While the rest of the team is ready to go out and celebrate (and has earned it!), I feel like I could use a nap, a hug, a good cry, and then perhaps a manhattan or two.

In July, we tried to raise $500k and…

Tags: entrepreneurship venture capital profitably ange Angel investing

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Jan
29th

Sat

Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k

Buying lottery tickets in bulk increases the probability of winning, doesn’t it?

Tags: venture capital angel investing yuri milner SV Angel ron conway ycombinator paul graham

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Oct
13th

Wed

Seed explosion via By The Numbers: Seed Funding is The New Black: Tech News «

Tags: venture capital angel investing angelgate

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Sep
24th

Fri

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email]

Tags: venture capital angel investing entrepreneurship ron conway angelgate

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Jul
16th

Fri

[Updated] The Coming Super-Seed Crash

Must-read on Venture Capital and “Super-seed” funds dynamics with capital-efficient web startups.

Tags: venture capital angel investing

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Jul
6th

Tue

How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA – II

Very good post on angel investing by Tim Ferriss (of 4-hour workweek fame)

Tags: angel investing venture capital

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Jun
3rd

Thu

The Math Of Angel Investing

Angel investing works with a lot of investments and very few home runs. Home run as in you invest €50k and take out €5 million …

Brad Feld shares a few tips on how to be successful at angel investing. My favorite is the following:

3. Understand the difference between 0x and 100x: I’ve had two of my angel investments return over 100x each. Since I had a strategy of investing the same amount in each company, all I needed was one 100x to allow me to have 99 companies completely flame out and return 0 and I’d still break even. With two investments at over 100x, I now have a built in gain of significantly over 3x across all of my investments since I’m made about 75 of them and I’m now deliciously “playing with house money” on all of the rest.

Tags: venture capital angel investing

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Mar
3rd

Wed

blog.pmarca.com: Angels vs. Venture Capitalists

If you are interested in VC, this is a must-read.

Tags: venture capital angel investing entrepreneurship

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