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How to Avoid Startup Due Diligence Groundhog Day
Pitching your startup to angel and VC investors can seem like groundhog day – doing the same thing over and over and over. Let’s do the math. The average angel writes a $25,000 check. You have to...
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The Startup Exit Strategy Canvas
First of all, you shouldn’t create an exit strategy for an investor – it’s actually the first question you should answer for yourself if you’re thinking about a startup. The Exit Strategy –...
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A Message for Startup CEOs During Pandemic
If you are a startup CEO, or work for a startup – these are challenging times. The world as you know it is on hiatus, and uncertainty reigns. I would like to share some wise advice from my friend and...
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How to Network at a Virtual Conference
Like many of you, I attended my first virtual conference a few months ago and while the content was great, I missed the networking that I value so much from conferences. Now, I’m planning my second...
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Brad Feld: The Startup Community Way and Complex Systems
Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway describe the startup community as a “complex system” in their new book, The Startup Community Way, By this they mean that it is inherently unpredictable and needs to be...
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The New Normal – Startups Define Post Pandemic Life
Part One: The New Normal of Work Think back on your life before the Global Financial Crisis. It seemed ok, and then disaster hit. In the following few years, startups created new ways of living in a...
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Why Discounts on Convertible Notes are for Losers!
There are a lot of misunderstandings about convertible notes and how they work, but one misunderstanding that I have not seen described well is the issue of the valuation cap vs. the discount and what...
View ArticleRevenue Based Investing: What is an “Ideal Candidate” Anyway?
Here’s a blog from our friends at Sage Growth Capital in Boise, Idaho. They have spent the last year and a half perfecting the still fairly novel idea of revenue based investing. Angel investors have...
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Why it costs $250,000 to learn how to be an Angel Investor
I’ve heard it said that it costs a quarter of a million dollars to learn to become a good angel investor and the number is shocking, but can make sense for people who decide to take their MBA “wisdom”...
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Attend this year’s Angel Capital Association Summit (Virtual or in Portland!)
(link https://events.angelcapitalassociation.org/2021summit) Clear your calendars – the Angel Capital Association is bringing the largest and most successful group of angels in the world together to...
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