It used to be the case that whenever a private company did a financing, it filed a Form D with the SEC in order to comply with Regulation D. Suddenly, I’m hearing of lots of situations, especially in seed and Series A financings, where companies are no longer filing Form D. Apparently a number of […]
I love it when Joe Kraus blogs. I don’t know Joe very well – mostly through my partner Ryan McIntyre (who was Joe’s partner at Excite) but I’ve greatly enjoyed our deep dinner time conversation (the last one I remember was a Vegas one that was the Dick Costolo / Eric Lunt leaving Google party […]
Dave Balter, the CEO of BzzAgent, founder of Smarterer, and an active angel investor has a guest post up on OnStartups about his approach to angel investing. It’s titled Shorter Flights at Lower Heights: The Right Way To Angel Invest and is definitely worth a read if you are an angel investor. I have a different strategy […]
I discovered Josh Breinlinger’s blog this morning via a tweet from @stefanobernardi. I added it to the Ask the VC blogroll and read through VCs are liars. And so am I. And – Josh is right – it’s super hard to say “you suck” or “your team sucks” as a reason for passing. I’ve written more about […]
Joanne Wilson (aka Gotham Gal) has an outstanding post today titled Pro-rata rights. In it she makes two important points about angel investing. She won’t do a deal if the legal documents aren’t good. She won’t do a deal if she doesn’t get pro-rata rights. She then goes on to discuss a thing that happens […]
Question: I participated in a company’s “app challenge weekend” (which they described as somewhere between a hackathon and a startup weekend). I am excited to continue working on the product that my team built over the weekend with 2 of the team members (my brother and the guy who pitched the idea). My preference is […]
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