Pitching Angels

Understanding the motivations and operations of VC funds is critical to getting funded

What is “venture capital”? Seems like a basic question every founder should be able to answer in their sleep.

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Raising $1M on a $10M valuation, growing revenues to $100M and exiting for $1B. That’s the plan. The rest are details of how.

As a startup advisor and angel investor, my days are filled with meetings wit...

And how their preferred shares allows them to kabash your celebration

In your seed round, you raised $5 million on a $20 million valuation. Not bad. But just a start. Because if things go well, the company will be worth at least 10x as much 5–7 years from now. And that’s what investors are betting on.

But you’ve developed some critical technology that’s attractin...