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The Summary is Dead. Long Live the Short Video

First, I admit it: sometimes I exaggerate for effect. And I just did, with my title here. In truth, you still need those summaries. By the time you’re here on Gust.com you’ve probably figured out that the relationship between business plans and short summaries is something like between movie and movie trailer. Investors don’t read the […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
1 Feb 2012
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Follow-on Funding: A Dilemma for Angel Investors

In 2007, Professor Rob Wiltbank reported in Returns to Angel Investors in Groups that angel investors made follow-on investment in about 30% of their invested companies. It was surprising for me to learn that follow-on investments correlated with lower returns, that is, angels that made follow-on angel investments saw returns of 1.4X their investment, while those that did […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
31 Jan 2012
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8 Ways to Surf the Entrepreneur Information Wave

Being an entrepreneur these days requires an understanding of a thousand topics, many of which don’t even exist today in traditional learning vehicles, like schools and textbooks. The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
30 Jan 2012
Trade Signal Fundraising Strategy

Movies, not Snapshots

Stopping by the First Growth Venture Network session today, I saw the usual great collection of startups and industry experts. It’s about the best forum for practical advice, mentoring, and support that an entrepreneur could hope to find.  As usual, there were lots of quotable quotes, but my favorite one today was from Jeff Bussgang, […]
Bob Rice
Bob Rice , MANAGING PARTNER , Tangent Capital
27 Jan 2012
Valuation. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Average Round Size in Angel Deals

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire has been publishing statistics on angel investing for decades.  Over the past several years, the numbers of US companies funded by angel investors has increased from about 50,000 per year to over 60,000 annually.  Mark Boslet of senior editor with Venture Capital Journal posted the following […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
26 Jan 2012
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