Do’s and Don’ts of Pitching Your Company?
I was guest Judge for at an event two nights ago for the Northwest Entrepreneur Network NWEN, called Pub Night. There were five companies there at the event and they were provided three minutes for a pitch, plus Q&A from me and the audience. There was a Founder Institute Grad, Cadence MD, formerly Cech Systems.
Read MoreDo your pitch – then SHUT UP and Listen!
I was able to attend the GeekWire Anniversary event yesterday in Seattle (#GWSummit), great event, great turnout of ~500 people. After the speakers had concluded, I was talking to an acquaintance who suggested I listen to an new Entrepreneurs pitch. I was intrigued because it started with “let me show you” on an iPad… I
Read MoreComments from “A challenge to Seattle VCs: Back 100 seed-stage startups in 24 months”
This is a post from Geekwire.com First, thanks to Marcelo for being a mentor last night at the Founder Institute Seattle, #SEFI. During the Q&A we had some discussion about the post and ongoing discussion. So giving the credit where it’s due… here’s my summary of the discussion. The VC model doesn’t work (or is
Read MoreStandard Seed Investor Docs
Ted Wang (Fenwick & West) has created a standard set of investor documents for Series Seed funding rounds. It’s an Open Source legal effort designed to take the 100 pages of term sheets to about 30. The approach is down the middle, not biased to the funder or the entrepreneur and without the potential gotchas
Read MoreBetter funding alternatives for startups…
Great article by Paul Graham on why “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups”. Convertible notes are easy and inexpensive for early stage startups… historically the alternative was to set a fixed price (guess) and round and take multiple angels. The problem was that the early Angels take the risk and the
Read MoreRon Conway – UberAngel investor on Entrepreneur Success
Conway: During The Bubble, 77% Entrepreneurs Failed. Now, It’s Around 40% Today, during our Social Currency CrunchUp, angel investor Ron Conway had some interesting data to share for the first time. Conway says that his company, SV Angel, has recently done an audit on the over 500 companies they’ve invested in over the past 12 years. And he was
Read More