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Lending Spigots for Small Businesses Are Starting to Drip

March 24, 2011 by Barbara Weltman with 54 views

One of the main gripes heard during the Great Recession was lack of access to capital for small business. Access to capital now appears to be gaining on a number of fronts. New SBA programs The Small Business Administration’s Advantage Loan Initiatives expands access to capital for small businesses and entrepreneurs in undeserved... [read more]

Angel Investing: Invest in C Corps, S Corps, or LLCs?

January 11, 2011 by Joey Lo with 1,451 views

Photo: Stewart Chambers/Flickr (Creative Commons) This is Part 1 of a series called “Angel Investing and Company Structure.” C Corps. S Corps. LLCs. Does the form of entities you invest in matters? You bet it does. The differences in taxation and flexibility in ownership and capital structuring among them can be significant. Does... [read more]

Don’t Send in the Porn Surfers; Rules for Angel Investing Saved

April 29, 2010 by Joey Lo with 376 views

Image: Reuters Sure you’ve heard about the infamous Dodd bill – probably gazillion times already indeed. But we found that some blogs and publications are still talking about the original bill. So we’re doing our small part to publicize the amendments. On April 21, it was announced that 2 provisions in the Dodd bill that’ll bring down... [read more]

#31: Here's a thought...

December 29, 2009 by BrianRoger with 221 views

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on MyVenturePad reveals the following nuggets: The gulf widens The mobile Internet will explode with Google Phone and Android adding to iPhone’s success. For many, work and play will happen wherever they happen to be. Others will reject the always-connected world, while some are... [read more]

What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

December 28, 2009 by Chris Dixon with 172 views

Short answer: enough to get your startup to an accretive milestone plus some fudge factor. “Accretive milestone” is a fancy way of saying getting your company to a point at which you can raise money at a higher valuation. As a rule of thumb, I would say a successful Series A is one where good VCs invest at a pre-money that is at least... [read more]

Investors of Tomorrow: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

December 3, 2009 by Joey Lo with 246 views

Are you smarter than a 5th grader? While this phrase has become a wildly popular game and game show, it is also an interesting segue into a recent post in The Business Insider. Daniel Schultz, DFJ Gotham’s co-founder and managing director, set out to try and explain venture capital to his son’s 5th grade class. To accomplish his goal,... [read more]

Angel $ down in 2008, but same number of deals. (New Hampshire Startup Blog)

April 5, 2009 by AlexanderMuse with 122 views

Total investments in 2008 were $19.2 billion, a decrease of 26.2% over 2007, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. However, a total of 55,480 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding in 2008, a modest 2.9% decrease from 2007, and the number of active investors in 2008 was 260,500... [read more]

Gene Kleiner's Rules for Venture Capital Success

July 28, 2008 by Charlie Hoult with 327 views

When looking for vision and inspiration, sometimes its good to go to the beginning. I spotted this piece of pre-Silicon Valley investor lore earlier today in a blog:... and this obituary of Eugene Kleiner ...the K in the famous VC KPCB. Eugene Kleiner was a part of the “traitorous eight”, who left their jobs at Shockley Labs... [read more]