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Investing in Startups: A How-To Guide for Investors (Angel, Seed, VC)

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Section: Introduction to Angel, Seed and VC Investing
Contains: 15 chunks ↓ details
  • Learn to be an Angel Investor - Training Bootcamps and Courses for Startup investors
  • Investing in Startups (Guide for Investors: VC, Angel, Seed)
  • Syndicates and Investing in Startups (Guide for Investors: VC, Angel, Seed)
  • VC fund - policy guides for venture fund managers
  • VCs and LPs - fund raising guides for venture fund managers
  • VC, venture capital and seed investing - Data, Statistics and Trends
  • Decision Making - and Thinking in Bets
  • Second Order Thinking - Decision Making
  • Investing in Startups - Learn to be an Angel investor
  • Decision Making
  • Venture Capital: 2 and 20 model for VC funds - fee structure
  • Data, Modeling and Decision Making
  • VC Mega-funds
  • Spearhead - Learn to be an Angel Investor - Training for Startup investors
  • Book Review: “Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get it“
Section: Seed round - Fund Raising & Investing
Contains: 7 chunks ↓ details
  • Seed Fundraising
  • Seed Fund-Raising (trends)
  • Angels, Venture Capital (VC) investors - a list of leading firms, people
  • SAFEs and Seed Fundraising
  • NSF SBIR - Seed Fundraising
  • NSF National Science Foundation - USA government organizatoin to promote progress of science
  • Convertible Notes (CN's) and Seed Fundraising
Section: Series A round - Fund Raising & Investing
Contains: 1 chunk ↓ details
  • Fundraising: Series A
Section: Series B round - Fund Raising & Investing
Contains: 1 chunk ↓ details
  • Fundraising: Series B
Section: Exits and Returns on Investment
Contains: 13 chunks ↓ details
  • The IPO and fund raising for entrepreneurs
  • Deal Algebra: What sort of Returns do Investors need? (VC, Angel, Seed)
  • Exit strategies
  • How do Investors in Startups (Angels, VCs) make money?
  • How much Money to Raise (or invest)?
  • Startup Failures
  • Examples of Exits for Entrepreneurs and VC Investors
  • EdTech - Examples of Exits for Entrepreneurs and VC Investors
  • Examples of Exits for Entrepreneurs (Who didn’t raise vc money)
  • Examples of IPO’s and fund raising for entrepreneurs
  • How do Investors in Startups (Angels, VCs) - decide where to invest?
  • Gumroad - helping creators get paid for their work
  • Zombie Companies and the case for allowing firms to fail, go bankrupt
Section: Fundraising guide - For Entrepreneurs
Contains: 13 chunks ↓ details
  • How much Money to Raise (or invest)?
  • Fundraising guide for entrepreneurs
  • Fundraising guide for entrepreneurs - advice from Mark Suster
  • VC Venture Capital - Fund raising guide for entrepreneurs
  • Grants - Fund raising guide for entrepreneurs
  • How to get meetings with investors, VCs - a networking, and fundraising guide for entrepreneurs
  • Dilution - Fund raising guide for entrepreneurs
  • Why founders should control equity (and their board) tightly
  • Essential Fundraising Advice from Mark Suster - Both Sides of the Table
  • Prorata rights and Dilution - Fund raising guide for entrepreneurs
  • Fundraising guide for entrepreneurs - tips for selecting the right investors, VCs
  • Co-founder relationship challenges for startup entrepreneurs
  • Fundraising and investing in Startups - impact of COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic
Section: Documents, Term Sheets and Due Diligence - Investing in Startups
Contains: 4 chunks ↓ details
  • Documents for fundraising
  • Term Sheet Documents for fund raising
  • Due Diligence - for startup fundraising
  • Data Rooms + Due Diligence - for startup fundraising
Section: Equity and Boards
Contains: 13 chunks ↓ details
  • How to structure a Board - for startups
  • Founders, Equity and Exits
  • How to split equity among co-founders
  • Using Equity to attract Talent for your Startup
  • Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups
  • Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups - Examples
  • Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups - Advice from AVC, Fred Wilson
  • How to structure a Board - for startups - advice from Mark Suster
  • Carta- startup for valuing Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups
  • Advisory Board - How to structure a Board of Advisors - for startups
  • Fundraising with Debt - alternative ways of Funding Startups
  • RSUs - Restricted Stock Units - Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups
  • Options, Vesting, Equity, Funding Startups - tools, resources, websites
Section: Financial Analysis - for Startups
Contains: 8 chunks ↓ details
  • How to build a $100MM startup
  • Valuation for Startup Fundraising
  • Fincancial Forecasting and Metrics for Startups
  • Alternative Data (for investing) - Foursquare, SecondMeasure, Mattermark, CBInsights, and more
  • Startup Business Models (How to they make money?)
  • Profits, Gross Margins and Valuations for Startup (fundraising)
  • Valuation for Startup Fundraising - examples
  • Communicating Metrics to Board Members (for Startups)
Section: Financial Analysis 101 - introduction
Contains: 3 chunks ↓ details
  • Time value of Money
  • Money and Inflation
  • The Future of Money
Section: Legal and Tax issues for Entrepreneurs
Contains: 20 chunks ↓ details
  • Startup Mechanics - Incorporation, Equity, Tax, Legal issues for Startups: Getting Started
  • How to Choose an Incorporation Type
  • When to Incorporate: Legal issues for Startups
  • Legal issues for Startups
  • Patents, Trademarks and Intellectual Property issues for Startups
  • Sales Tax and the Internet (USA)
  • Tax issues for Startups (USA)
  • Bitcoin and Taxes
  • Bitcoin Legal issues and Risk
  • Taxes for Entrepreneurs - rates, policy and legal issues - USA
  • USA and Taxes
  • The IRS and Taxes
  • Tax filing, the IRS and private companies - TurboTax, H&R Block, others
  • Corporate Taxes - rates, policy and legal issues - USA
  • Delaware - Choosing a location to incorporate your startup
  • Capital Gains Tax - USA
  • Bookkeeping, Accounting and Taxes for Entrepreneurs - tools, resources
  • Intuit - accounting, tax filing and financial planning software giant
  • Tax issues for Startups (USA) - tools, resources, websites
  • Startup Mechanics - Incorporation, Tax, Legal issues - tools, resources, websites
Section: Team Building and Startups
Contains: 22 chunks ↓ details
  • Team Building (for startups)
  • Payments, Salaries and Team Building at Startups
  • Innovation and Team Building (for startups)
  • Culture and Team Building (for startups)
  • How to Handle Conflict in Teams
  • How to set up a Sales Team - for Startups
  • Team Building - hiring and developing - Engineering, Coding talent at startups
  • Team Building - hiring and developing talent at startups
  • The Problem of Bad Management (for teams)
  • The Problem with Shared Open Offices
  • Culture and Team Building (for startups) - tips, suggestions
  • CEO and the CFO - Team Building - hiring and developing talent at startups
  • HR, Team Building - tech stack, tools, resources
  • Startup ideas and risk - market risk, execution risk
  • HR, reviews and feedback - Management (for teams)
  • Recruiting Platforms - HR, Team Building - tools, resources
  • Mission, Vision and Values for Team Building - hiring and developing talent at startups
  • When to bring in an external CEO - Team Building - hiring and developing talent at startups
  • Culture and Team Building - examples from companies (Hubspot, Netflix, Amazon, more)
  • Politics, Culture and Team Building at Work
  • CEO pay - Wealth, Wages and Inequality
  • Marketing Team Building - hiring and developing Marketing talent at startups
Section: Pitches
Contains: 17 chunks ↓ details
  • Fund raising pitch decks
  • How to Pitch to an Investor
  • How to Practice for an Upcoming Pitch / Speech
  • Using Keynote and Powerpoint for Presentation, Pitch, Speech
  • Fincancial Forecasting and Metrics for Startups
  • Keep Practicing! Advice on Overcoming a Bad-Pitch to an Investor
  • Watch other Entrepreneurs Pitch to Investors
  • Emailing your Fund raising pitch deck
  • What to include in Fundraising pitch decks
  • Sales pitch decks
  • Presentations - tools, resources for communicating visually
  • Hype and Startups - for fundraising, launch, branding
  • Communicating Metrics to Board Members (for Startups)
  • HEY - email app from makers of Basecamp
  • Slidebean - tool to help with Pitch Decks for startup founders
  • Data Visualization- Presentations - communicating visually
  • Basecamp - software company
Section: Social Impact Investing, Funds
Contains: 4 chunks ↓ details
  • Social Impact Funds
  • Social Capital and Social Impact Funds
  • NonProfits, B Corps and Public Benefit Corporations: How to Choose an Incorporation Type
  • Problem - ESG funds: environmental, social and governance finance, activist investors
Section: Alternative models for funding startups
Contains: 3 chunks ↓ details
  • Alternative models for funding early-stage startups (other than Seed, Angel, VC)
  • Capital-as-a-Service: Alternative models for funding early-stage startups
  • Pipe - Miami based fin tech startup for Capital-as-a-Service
Section: Bootstrapping - an alternative model for funding startups
Contains: 5 chunks ↓ details
  • Bootstrapping Startups
  • Grow slowly without Venture Capital (vc) money
  • Examples of Bootstrapping Startups
  • Examples of Self-Funded startups (other than Seed, Angel, VC)
  • Examples of startups that grew big without Venture Capital (vc) money
Section: Crowdfunding - an alternative model for funding startups
Contains: 7 chunks ↓ details
  • Patreon - Sponsors, Donors and Crowdfunding
  • Crowdfunding
  • Fan Subscription Services - Sponsors, Donors and Crowdfunding
  • Sponsors, Donors and Crowdfunding - for creatives
  • Platforms to find donations, sponsors, crowdfunding
  • Crowdfunding - rules, regulations
  • Crowdfunding - examples of companies using crowd funding
Section: Blockchain - an alternative model for funding startups
Contains: 3 chunks ↓ details
  • Blockchain ICOs for Fund Raising
  • Token Trading - Blockchain ICOs for Fund Raising
  • Examples - Blockchain ICOs for Fund Raising
Section: Global startup ecosystems - for investors
Contains: 6 chunks ↓ details
  • How to foster Startup Ecosystems
  • Geopolitics of Saudi, Chinese and Russian investments in Silicon Valley
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Germany
  • Israel: Startup Nation
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship in France
  • Business in Germany - culture, innovation
Section: Silicon Valley, and San Francisco - startup ecosystem - for investors
Contains: 7 chunks ↓ details
  • Silicon Valley
  • How Silicon Valley became the top Startup Ecosystem
  • Silicon Valley - challenges
  • Silicon Valley - benefits
  • Company Towns and Economic Development in California, Silicon Valley and San Francisco
  • Andreessen Horowitz - a16z
  • Military, Funding and Tech, Silicon Valley
Section: Miami - startup ecosystem - for investors
Contains: 25 chunks ↓ details
  • Miami - Startup Ecosystem
  • Startup Investing in Miami - a guide for VCs and Angel Investors
  • Startups in Miami and SE Florida
  • Startups with VC Funding - in Miami
  • Ultimate Software
  • eMerge Americas and the Miami Startup Ecosystem
  • Code/Art - Girls who code
  • LAB Ventures (The Lab) - Miami - Startup Ecosystem
  • Caribu
  • Miami Herald - Startup Pitch - Business Plan Challenge
  • WhereBy.Us - The New Tropic
  • Miami, art, creativity and economic development
  • Softbank in Miami - Startup Ecosystem
  • Miami - Startup Ecosystem 2022
  • Octopi
  • Boatsetter
  • Miami - VC, Angel investing, and the startup ecosystem
  • Miami Edtech - Startup Ecosystem for education technology
  • Miami - Startup Ecosystem 2020-2021
  • Welcome to Miami - an introduction to the Miami Startup Ecosystem
  • Miami Tech Ecosystem - community, education, support and development
  • The Beacon Council - Miami Startup Ecosystem
  • VentureCity - Miami - Startup Ecosystem
  • City of Miami - blockchain initiatives
  • Miami - financial, tech, business hub for Latin America
Section: Frontier tech - trends, investing
Contains: 3 chunks ↓ details
  • Frontier Tech and Academic Research - Investing in Startups (Guide for Investors: VC, Angel, Seed)
  • Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups
  • Startup ideas and risk - market risk, execution risk
Section: Ethics, Startups and Technology
Contains: 10 chunks ↓ details
  • AI and Ethics
  • Ethics and Startups
  • Ethics and Sustainable Business
  • Genetic Engineering, DNA, Ethics and Science
  • Science and Ethics
  • Google - AI, ethics, controversy and debate
  • Ethics and design: The Psychology of Building Addictive Products
  • Data science, AI and Ethics
  • Healthcare and Ethics
  • Space Exploration and Genetic Engineering, DNA, Ethics, Science
Section: Investing in Startups - Startup Accelerators
Contains: 9 chunks ↓ details
  • Startup Accelerators
  • Startup Accelerators vs. Incubators
  • Where to find Startup Accelerators
  • EdTech Startup Accelerators
  • Studio Model for Startups, VC's and Accelerators
  • Studio Model for VC's and Startup Accelerators - TechStars Studio
  • Startup Accelerator - TechStars
  • Startup Accelerator - 500 Startups
  • Y Combinator (YC) - investment, terms, conditions

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Description: This is a collection of articles and resources from leading VC's and Angel funds, offering tips for Investing in Startups: A How-To Guide for Investors (Angel, Seed, VC)



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