Posts Tagged ‘angel’
Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Ron Conway and Mike Maples
by Scott Edward Walker on September 6th, 2010
To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series entitled “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video clip of successful entrepreneurs, investors or business leaders on a variety of topics to help entrepreneurs succeed.
This week, we present legendary angel investor Ron Conway (commonly referred to as the “Godfather of Silicon Valley”) and super angel Mike Maples (managing partner of Floodgate). In this interesting, three-minute clip (courtesy of Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner), Ron and Mike provide strong, practical advice to startups, including the importance of (i) a low burn rate, (ii) a “lean, mean” team and (iii) a customer development strategy. I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks, Scott
Tags: angel, burn rate, entrepreneurs, investors, Mike Maples, Ron Conway, startups
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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Keith Rabois (of Slide)
by Scott Edward Walker on June 28th, 2010
To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series entitled “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video presentation or interview of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics to help entrepreneurs succeed.
This week, we present Keith Rabois, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Slide and a very smart investor (courtesy of GigaOm TV). In this interesting, 20-minute interview, Keith discusses, among other things: (i) the recent increases in the size of angel rounds, (ii) making investment decisions, (iii) how “cool” it is being a seed investor, (iv) the changing role of the VC, (v) how to choose the right investor and (vi) the excitement of being an entrepreneur. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks, Scott
Tags: angel, angel rounds, entrepreneurs, Keith Rabois, leader, seed investor, Slide, vc
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Walker Twitter Highlights: April 4th – 10th
by Scott Edward Walker on April 11th, 2010
For those of you who missed this week’s Twitter updates, below you’ll find highlights of our top tweets. If you would like to see all of our tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.
If you have any questions or comments with respect to any of the tweets below, please contact us through the comments section of this post. Many thanks, Scott
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Tags: angel, angel round, Ask the Attorney, attorney, entrepreneur, selling your business, startup, startup company, twitter, Twitter Highlights, valutation
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Walker Twitter Highlights: March 21st – 27th
by Scott Edward Walker on March 28th, 2010
For those of you who missed this week’s Twitter updates, below you’ll find highlights of our top tweets. If you would like to see all of our tweets (or if you would like to receive an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.
If you have any questions or comments with respect to any of the tweets below, please contact us through the comments section of this post. Many thanks, Scott
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Tags: angel, entrepreneurs, founding teams, series seed, series seed documents, VCs
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“Ask the Attorney” – Types of Angel Financing
by Scott Edward Walker on February 17th, 2010
Introduction
This post is part of a weekly series called “Ask the Attorney,” which I am writing for VentureBeat (one of the most popular websites for entrepreneurs). As the VentureBeat Editor notes on the site: “Ask the Attorney is a new VentureBeat feature allowing start-up owners to get answers to their legal questions.”
I have two goals here: (i) to encourage entrepreneurs to ask law-related questions regardless of how basic they may be; and (ii) to provide helpful responses in plain English (as opposed to legalese). Please give me your feedback in the comments section. Many thanks, Scott
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Tags: angel, angel financing, common stock, convertible notes, dilution, founders, preferred stock, Series A, valuation
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Angel Financings: Five Tips for Entrepreneurs – Part 2
by Scott Edward Walker on December 16th, 2009
Introduction
This is part two of my two-part series on angel financings. In part one, I provided the following five tips for entrepreneurs: (i) push for the issuance of convertible notes; (ii) understand the key business terms; (iii) diligence the angel(s); (iv) never subject yourself to personal liability; and (v) comply with applicable securities laws. Below are five additional tips for entrepreneurs to help them through the angel financing process. Obviously, this is still a difficult environment in which to raise capital; however, I am confident that 2010 will bring greener pastures.
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Tags: angel, angel financings, angel groups, angels, Band of Angels, convertible notes, diligence, entrepreneurs, preferred stock, Tech Coast Angels, tips, tips for entrepreneurs
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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 30th – December 5th
by Scott Edward Walker on December 6th, 2009
For those of you who missed this week’s Twitter updates, below you’ll find highlights of our top tweets. If you would like to see all of our tweets (or if you would like to receive an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.
If you have any questions or comments with respect to any of the tweets below, please contact us through the comments section of this post. Many thanks, Scott (more…)
Tags: angel, angel financings, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, legal tips, startup, twitter
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Angel Financings: Legal Tips For Entrepreneurs – Part 1
by Scott Edward Walker on December 2nd, 2009
Introduction
I am currently working with several smart, young entrepreneurs who are trying to raise capital from “angels” (i.e., wealthy individuals who invest in start-up companies). Indeed, since I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 2005, I have been involved in a number of angel financings; and what’s interesting from my perspective as a corporate attorney is that the deals run the gamut from an angel handing a check to an entrepreneur and instructing him to “send the paperwork when it’s ready” — to an angel retaining a large, aggressive law firm and insisting on shares of preferred stock, with all the “bells and whistles.” Below are five tips for entrepreneurs to help them through the angel financing process. (This is part one of a two-part series; I will provide five additional tips in my next post.) (more…)
Tags: angel, angel financings, angels, business attorneys, convertible notes, corporate attorney, entrepreneurs, liquidation preference, personal liability, Regulation D, rescission offers, SEC, securities laws, tips for entrepreneurs
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Walker Twitter Highlights: October 26th – October 31st
by Scott Edward Walker on October 31st, 2009
For those of you who do not follow Walker Corporate Law Group, PLLC (Walker) on Twitter, I have set forth below highlights of our tweets for the past six days (in reverse chronological order). I indeed hope that a few of the links to articles, blog posts, podcasts and videos are helpful to our clients and friends. If you would like to follow Walker on Twitter (or if you would like to receive an RSS feed of our tweets), you can sign-up here. You can also check out the recent tweets of some of the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and others Walker is following by clicking their photos on such page. If you have any questions or comments (or if you would like any additional information) with respect to any of the tweets below, please contact me through the comments section of this post. Many thanks, Scott (more…)
Tags: angel, angels, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, M&A, vc, venture capital
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