Crowdfunding is rapidly growing in the UK and elsewhere. No longer restricted to Friends Family and Fools, founders can
Crowdfunding is rapidly growing in the UK and elsewhere. No longer restricted to Friends Family and Fools, founders can
I’ve been contacted by several members the VC Cafe Network on LinkedIn who are asking for assistance in fundraising for a web startup or a mobile app. I’m writing today to share my recommendations with all who have enquired, and with the broader group of VC Cafe readers.
This morning, I attended the VC session titled “From Weekend Hack to Funded Startup – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money”, with Naval Ravikant (founder of AngelList, ePinions, VentureHacks), Rich Miner (Partner at Google Ventures and co-founder of Android) and Kevin Rose (founder of Digg, Milk, Pownce and Partner at Google Ventures), moderated by Don Dodge. Below are the highlights from the session, including some great questions from the audience.
This summer, I had the pleasure to be a mentor at the Entrepreneurship Summer School, an elective at London Business School (my alma mater) where students are tasked with testing whether their startup ideas can turn into a fundable business over the course of three months. Check out the tips for raising funding from angels after the jump.
10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. So what makes one VC fund be better perceived than others?
Back in March, Andreessen Horowitz and Fenwick & West, LLP published a series of documents that would help structure early stage investments in startups. The documents have since been used in many deals already according to the site, SeriesSeed.
How to make your startup attractive for investors? Raising money can be time consuming and proper preparation can save you time and money. Here are 10 tips to consider before you pitch to raise funding, originally presented at Launch48 in London.
Information overload! That’s the only way to explain the “January Effect” of tech and VC news since the new decade began a week ago. Here’s a few links worth clicking on: Microsoft’s research and development center in Israel is set to hire dozens of new employees SAPIR extends the power of web searches beyond centralized …
CrowdIT Ltd., the company which operates the freelance work search engine DoNanza, has secured a “several hundred thousand dollar” investment from the AfterDox Angels Investment Group, writes Shiri Habib-Valdhorn at Globes.