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Venture Capital Market Update – Turbulence Ahead

Source: Michael Greeley, General Partner, Flare Venture Partners With Bitcoin blasting through the $7,800 per token ceiling last week (then promptly dropping $1,000 in last two days), Apple now worth...

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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Implications for Venture Capital

Source: Jeff Bussgang, Flybridge Capital Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer – more than the total...

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How Hard is it to Earn a 10X Return on Investment?

Source: Rob Go, Cofounder, NextView Ventures Every time I see blog posts referencing multiples on VC investments, I wonder if writers or readers appreciate how hard it is to generate these kinds of...

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Matching Grants: What Does Your State Have?

Source: Ken Kousky, BlueWater Angels and Krista Tuomi, American University A number of public policy activities and initiatives that occur in American states are just as important to angel investors...

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The Smell of Burning Cash is Spreading

Source: New York Times, Kevin Roose I’ve got a great idea for a start-up. Want to hear the pitch? It’s called the 75 Cent Dollar Store. We’re going to sell dollar bills for 75 cents — no service...

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How Family Offices Review Potential Investments

Source: Richard Wilson, The Family Offices Group Family offices receive an overwhelming number of requests from fund managers and companies to review their investment opportunity and consider making an...

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4 Major Term Sheet Provisions that Protect VCs’ Interests

Source: Robin Riddell, Alyssa Riddle and George Gaprindashvili Venture investing is risky. That’s why VCs are experts at building downside protections into their deals to limit their chances of losing...

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State of the Venture Market – May 2017

Source: Michael Greeley, General Partner, Flare Capital Partners Now that most of the investment data are in for 1Q17, analysts are using words like “disciplined” and “normalized” to describe the...

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Business Valuation – How to Think about Pre/Post Money Valuation

Source: Billy Fink , Axial Forum Pre-money and post-money are frequently used terms to describe the valuation of a company when raising capital. In this post, we provide an introduction to the...

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The 5 Worst Things You Can Say to a Venture Capitalist

Source: Mark Achler, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners and lecturer at Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management As a venture capitalist, I meet every day with two or three entrepreneurs who...

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