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Les 12 commandements d’un Business Angel | Business Angel France
L’idée m’est venue un matin, comme souvent, et je me suis dit que je tenais un bon sujet de billet. Une fois mes premières idées couchées sur l’écran, j’ai challengé quelques confrères comme Olivier Fannius , Jeremie Berrebi ou Stéphane Fantuz . Et voici la V1.
Allez, je m’y jette… voilà un article qui me travaille depuis pas mal de temps, et qu’il me semble très important de sortir, ne serait-ce que pour lancer un peu le débat. Plus on parle, et moins on met de langue de bois, mieux c’est, hein Les Business Angels ont depuis pas mal de temps plutôt bonne presse, et force est de reconnaître qu’ils ont un vrai bel impact sur la naissance et la croissance de tout un tas de jeunes boites, avec plusieurs centaines de projets financés chaque année (ce que j’estime à environ 1000 startups financées par an, dont une petite moitié par les réseaux de BA). De l’argent, de l’écoute, de l’expérience, du réseau, du temps, des conseils… contre quelques parts de l’entreprise en amorçage et parfois en prenant au passage une petite réduction fiscale… C’est le deal et il semble plutôt intéressant au vu du nombre toujours plus grands de candidats à la fameuse levée de fonds.
Business Devils : les mauvaises pratiques qu’on peut rencontrer… | Création d'entreprise ! | Guilhem Bertholet
Do You Really Even Need VC? | Both Sides of the Table
I recently spoke on a panel in Santa Monica organized by my friend Jason Nazar , CEO of DocStoc , titled Startups Uncensored, Pitching Venture Capitalists . There were about 200 people in the audience.
Is Color’s Team Worth $41M, Even if Its Idea Isn’t?: Tech News and Analysis «
The launch of a new mobile app called Color on Wednesday has caused a lot of buzz — not so much because of the app itself, but because of the massive sum of money the company raised before it even launched. A group of funds, including Sequoia Capital, gave the company $41 million, and Sequoia’s chunk (as Color proudly noted) is more than the fund invested in Google . Is this new app really as revolutionary as that implies? Maybe.What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt | Both Sides of the Table
What do you get when you combine 7 panelist plus one moderator on to a stage for 30 minutes to talk about a serious topic?
The Arrogant VC: Why VCs are disliked by entrepreneurs, Part 2 -
Thanks to Atlas Venture for supporting Venture Hacks this month. This post is by Fred Destin , one of Atlas’ general partners. If you like it, check out Fred’s blog and tweets @ fdestin . – Nivi
The Arrogant VC: Why VCs are disliked by entrepreneurs - Venture
Thanks to Atlas Venture for supporting Venture Hacks this month. This post is by Fred Destin , one of Atlas’ general partners.
Since this is my first post as a former venture capitalist I thought it might be interesting to answer a one of the more… opaque issues in venture financing. Two of the most frequent questions I got as a VC from entrepreneurs were “how much is my company worth” and “how do venture capitalists value my company?” The truth is that the answer has nothing to do with DCF’s or other business school theories, but instead is based around what the VC thinks/needs to return to their fund from that particular investment.
Valuing early stage companies | Startable - Healy Jones' & Prasa
Reid Hoffman: My Rule of Three for Investing
The guest post below was written by Reid Hoffman , CEO and Founder of LinkedIn. Reid, who's been a prolific writer lately, is a strong advocate of entrepreneurism and the startup mentality. See his recent Washington Post article Let Our Start-Ups Bail Us Out , and the guest post he wrote here on TechCrunch, Stimulus 2.0: It?s The Startups, Stupid . Reid has recently appeared on Charlie Rose, and we had a chance to sit down with him earlier this year for a video interview as well.My apologies... this is a long piece (~2500 words). Not for the faint of heart. If you want the short story, read the abstract below & 3 core assertions, then cut to the conclusions at the bottom.