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Angels on Corporate Boards - Managing Your Risk

Angels serve on boards of directors of portfolio companies because they want to contribu read more »
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This is a post by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures. It goes through some statistics on Venture investing and ROI to imply the VC returns model is read more »
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This is the report on the most comprehensive survey of executive compensation for startup technology companies in the US and Canada. The report detai read more »
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This is a report of the results of the most comprehensive survey of executive compensation at life sciences startups in the US. The report details th read more »
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There is currently no single source of startup information, in the USA, or elsewhere. Information is scattered everywhere. ChubbyBrain was conceived read more »
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Two previous posts: Venture Capital Firms are Too Big and Venture Capital Funds - How the Math Works, described how venture capital investors will wa read more »
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All else equal, a venture-capital-backed entrepreneur who starts a company that goes public has a 30 percent chance of succeeding in his or her next read more »
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Three Code provisions give preferential tax treatment to equity investments in certain small business corporations. These corporations continue to be read more »
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After years of individual investment, angels began banding together in the early '90s to form organized groups. Now angel groups are creating syndic read more »
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Angelblog is devoted to the development of best practices for angel investors and entrepreneurs. Its goal is to facilitate profitable, fair and enjoy read more »
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If you build a portfolio of less than 20 deals, and especially if you are an early-stage investor where the industry mortality rate is somewhere in t read more »
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Whether it's 5% or 10%, it should be something that you can manage losing. Different people will have different risk profiles, but clearly you don' read more »
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Asset allocation is the key decision of every investor. But how does Angel Investing fit into an individual's asset allocation? The following chart read more »
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A portfolio strategy emerges from observing prudent angel investors. Half of angels commit no more than 15% of the net worth to seed and startup vent read more »
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The biggie, Founder Pay.

First, I don't believe in working for free. There is no such thing as working for free. If you tell me you are working read more »
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A while back, I asked for feedback from the community on potential topics of interest. One email had a host of questions around founders' equity. I read more »
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ATP and angel investors provide significant funding for early stage technologies, where there is a capital gap between scientific and technical break read more »
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When it comes to investing, Donald Marvin is no greenhorn. For the past decade, Marvin, the founder of Cairn Associates, a financial-advisory firm in read more »
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Every year, angel investors and venture capital funds invest about the same amount of capital -- around $25 billion in the US and $3 billion in Canad read more »
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The head of an alliance of angel investment groups came to Wisconsin recently to encourage angels to band together.

On October 19th, Susan Preston read more »
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