Q: Say I have an angel (SEC accredited) who’s ready to invest at an amount well below $100k. How would this impact on a future round with VCs? Is there some standard or average pre-money and post-money that happens in angel deals? Also, the angel in question is a family member of a friend, so would it be better to have them invest as a family/friend financier rather than an angel, and how exactly would that work? A: (Brad) Let me address the last question first. There is no real difference between a “family/friend” investor and an “angel” investor other than semantics. Structurally….
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Similar topics at:  Family and Friends, Selling Stock -- SEC Rules, Valuation  accredited investor, sec It has fallen upon angels to educate entrepreneurs about the realities of compressed valuations in today’s economy, especially since VCs are supporti What’s the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make? According to Jason Green, Founding Partner at Emergence Capital, it’s responding to the questi (Note: the best way to use this valuation estimator is to answer the questions, see the valuation, and then change an answer or two to see the effect Negotiating the valuation for a venture-where the valuation is based on the percentage of the venture’s equity that an investor receives for some am (Note: read the comments on this blog’s post since numbers change with the investment environment. The post does point to process though). The op For decades, experienced angel investors have intuitively used the following rules of thumb for investing in seed and startup companies: * Hom Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Use a hiring plan to justify a small option pool, increase your sha In most cases, an announcement of a $9 million pre-money valuation for an early stage, pre-revenue company would result in a very short meeting, if a |
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