Comments on: Frothy Times for Web Angel Investing

By: Signs of Angel Investing Exuberance: a Tool & a Game: Tech News «

Signs of Angel Investing Exuberance: a Tool & a Game: Tech News « — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:29:09 +0000

[...] outsized personalities of leading early stage investors dominating the tech startup sector. See: the rise of the super angels jumping into the opportunity of cheaper companies and smaller exits, very real competition with [...]

By: Entrepreneurs As The New Asset Class « Enterprisers.in

Entrepreneurs As The New Asset Class « Enterprisers.in — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:48:29 +0000

[...] worrying about technology, market sizes, product-market fit, etc. I just want to invest before the valuation gets frothy (seed is so [...]

By: Steve Nash to be an Early Stage VC

Steve Nash to be an Early Stage VC — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:43:45 +0000

[...] Will we soon be seeing Steve Nash scouting startups at Y Combinator Demo Days and the like? As a basketball fan, I can’t say I would mind — though celebrities tend to dabble in tech with weak results. Nash getting into the game is yet another sign of frothy times in early stage investing. [...]

By: Silicon Valley & The Scent of Money

Silicon Valley & The Scent of Money — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:35:45 +0000

[...] increase in the number of angel investors (such as Keith Rabois and Chris Dixon) and super-early stage funds (such as one managed by [...]

By: 4 Counterintuitive Stories From Rapportive’s Seed Funding

4 Counterintuitive Stories From Rapportive’s Seed Funding — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:32:23 +0000

[...] but they are becoming the way the leading edge of the web startup world works. Seed rounds with outsized numbers of investors, more mature companies (and people) participating in startup incubators, and rolling funding [...]

By: A Peek Inside the M&A Playbooks of Technology’s Top Acquirers

A Peek Inside the M&A Playbooks of Technology’s Top Acquirers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:16:07 +0000

[...] on that number of new shareholders,” he said. (That’s an interesting contrast to the current trend of young startups taking early rounds from large syndicates of angel and sometimes VC [...]

By: How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image

How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:37:43 +0000

[...] in Mountain View, Calif. today, packed the room with people with an interest in breaking into the frothy angel investing space — a mix of people from recently successful tech startups as well as those from outside the [...]

By: Come See The Incredible, Shrinking VC Industry!

Come See The Incredible, Shrinking VC Industry! — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:15:51 +0000

[...] much more capital efficient and need a lot less money to grow in the early phase of their life. The rise of the new angel investors is only helping the startups, who are taking small amount of funding to prove their ideas before [...]

By: Is There a Super-Angel Crash Looming?

Is There a Super-Angel Crash Looming? — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:42:50 +0000

[...] By Liz Gannes Jun. 29, 2010, 10:42am PDT No Comments The frothy state of web angel investing has changed the early lives of many companies in the past year, but it’s not clear how much [...]

By: Lateef

Lateef — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:31:35 +0000

I just started fundraising in Nebraska. It will be interesting to see if national trends are affecting the more isolated markets. I'll report back what I find out.