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When you start meeting with startups to angel invest in, you will mostly be meeting with founders who have been unable to raise funding for their startup. The best founders, like Mark Pincus (Zynga) and Evan Williams (Blogger, Twitter, and Medium), for example, are able not only to pick from the top angel investors—thanks to their exceptional track
... See moreJason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
startup founders’ treasure chest
Malik Gwandu • 5 cards
Of the billion-dollar companies in my dataset, about 60 percent had raised their first round of financing from tier-one (brand-name) venture capital firms like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, or Accel, while less than 20 percent had raised from tier-one VCs in the random group, another significant difference observed among the two groups.
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
GrowthX is an early-stage venture capital firm
Judy Robinett • Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
investors that demand a PPM.
Brad Feld • Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Accel Partners, one of the top brand-name VC firms, invested a small part of its ninth fund to lead the series A round in Facebook. Seven years later, Facebook had an IPO valuing the company at $100 billion, giving the initial investment at least a 300x return.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
However, remember that we want your first ten investments to be $1,000 syndicate-level swings at bat so you can learn at the low-stakes table, where mistakes aren’t devastating. After that, in this book, we talk about making twenty $25,000 bets and quadrupling down on the winners with a $100,000 follow-on investment.