Editor's Pick Here are AngelList founder Naval Ravikant's advice for budding angel investors, and entrepreneurs on the hunt for funding.
Editor's Pick There is no shame in brushing up on the basics! Christine Herron, director of Intel Capital, advises "Never be ashamed to ask questions."
This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. I'm sure I'll spark the ire of some VC's for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as
Below you will find an outline for the posts I've done on how to raise VC. The initial section covers what to do before you approach a VC (or if you should
I recently spoke on a panel in Santa Monica organized by my friend Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc, titled Startups Uncensored, Pitching Venture Capitalists.
Not understanding and agreeing what "entrepreneur" and “startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. I’m getting ready to go overs
Don't blow a financing opportunity by approaching the wrong source.
AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments: Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. If I need $250,000 to get...
This post is part of a series of posts called Pitching a VC that explains how to get access to VC's, what to say when you get there and what will happen
Getting financing for your startup is rarely easy, but if you approach the wrong investor, you can make it even harder than it has to be. “How can there be a ‘wrong investor’?” you might be thinking. “Don’t I just go with whoever is willing to give me the money?”
It’s not quite that simple. Approaching the wrong investor is kind of…
