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Investment Strategy for Angels

After participating in a seminar I delivered a couple of years ago, an experienced angel investor commented to me he would never write another check for $250,000 to a single startup.  Instead his new strategy would begin writing checks for $25,000 to $50,000 for many companies. Rob Wiltank’s study  a few years ago validated what […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
23 Feb 2012
What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Startups

Nickel-and-Dimed to Life: Franchise Tax, Registered Agents and Filing Fees

Early stage startups understandably seek to minimize corporate overhead and devote every penny to customer development, engineering, marketing and so forth. Nevertheless, if you want or need the benefits of a business entity such as a corporation or LLC, there are some unavoidable expenses associated with their “care and feeding.” (Legal expenses are outside the […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
23 Feb 2012
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A Quick Reminder of the Roots of Angel Investment

I just picked up on a great reminder of how “it all” got started: Gordon Moore and eight others formed Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and how that led to the model for outside investment: Little to anyone’s knowledge at the time, how it was formed would set the model for almost every Silicon Valley company […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
22 Feb 2012
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I don’t file for patent protection often, but when I do, it’s provisional.

OK, the Most Interesting Man’s isn’t a lawyer, and his view is a bit simplistic. But he does have a point: in many cases, provisional patent applications can provide useful and inexpensive (if short term) protection for your brilliant new idea.Think of a provisional patent application as a placeholder. With it, you put everyone on […]
Bob Rice
Bob Rice , MANAGING PARTNER , Tangent Capital
21 Feb 2012
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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Cash is the fuel of every startup. Your burn rate is the rate at which that money is being spent, and allows an estimate of how long you can go before refueling (runway). That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin that steep profitable growth curve. […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
20 Feb 2012
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