Category Archives: angel

Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)

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.

10 Tips for Startups Raising Money from Angels

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.

How Can Venture Capital Funds Differentiate Themselves [VC Wish List Part 2]

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?

Series Seed Documents for Early Stage Startups – V2

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.

10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

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.

First Bitesize of 2010

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 …

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Attention Israeli Entrepreneurs: TechAviv Angels Launches

Yaron Samid’s TechAviv, the most extensive Israeli start up meetup group in Israel and the US, has announced the launch of a new angel network today. TechAviv Angels is an informal group of Israel’s ‘top dogs’ media founders, that grouped together to identify, fund and mentor early stage Israeli start ups. I have to hand it …

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Miscellaneous thoughts and Israeli start up headlines

1) Siano Mobile Sillicon, an Israeli start up developing silicon receivers for the emerging mobile digital TV (MDTV) market, has created technology that will enable iPhones to receive digital TV. It’s a major announcement for the tiny company, who will be distributing the product through Apple and Japan’s mobile operator Softbank Mobile. More on this in an …

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AfterDox – Former Amdocs Executives Form an Angel Investment Group

43 former and present executives from Amdocs have raised several million dollars and formed AfterDox, an angel group targeting early stage enterprise software and telecom companies. The group explicitly expressed that they will not invest in medical devices or hardware companies. The angel group has already met with 70 prospect companies and is getting ready …

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