11 posts and columns on angel investors

Chasing the New Angel Investors

in Voices on December 15, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Budding entrepreneur Eric Bolden had never met an angel investor until he tried pitching a business idea to a few of them.

The New Rules of Raising Cash

in News on April 14, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Raising money for start-ups is relatively easy in Silicon Valley these days. But longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists say it is still nowhere near as simple as it was in 1999 and 2000, when a cash flood fueled the dot-com bubble.

I Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business

in Social on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud?

Start-Up Aims at Google

in News on November 1, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Google Inc.’s dominant position in Web search isn’t deterring other entrants. The latest, Blekko Inc., hopes to attract users by narrowing search results. The start-up, which formally is starting its service Monday, hopes to limit the number of spam or low-quality websites that show up for searches in categories such as health, cars and personal finance.

Big Name VCs Beg Start-ups: Please, Take Our Money!

in Media on July 7, 2010 at 7:04 am PT

Can’t raise money for your start-up? Maybe you’re doing something wrong. Here’s a gaggle of prominent VCs and angels begging to fund you.

An Angel Group for Political Gain

in News on June 8, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Most investors have a straightforward mission: to get rich. But a newly launched angel group called New Media Ventures has a different agenda. “The return on our investment for our investors is political,” Director Matt Ewing said. “This is about creating political change.”

Another Sign of Start-Up Optimism: Legendary VC Alan Patricof Raises a New Fund (Finally!)

in Media on February 3, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Venture capital firms are getting hammered, but a select few have been able to raise more money to start new funds. Today’s example: Greycroft’s Alan Patricof, whose new fund required much more work than he expected, but is just about done now.

Angel Group Looks for Wins by Setting Its Sights a Little Later

in News on October 13, 2009 at 3:35 pm PT

Most angel investors dream of home-run exits, funneling seed capital into young start-ups with hopes they’ll turn into Google, YouTube or even Mint.com. But the Band of Angels, an angel group flush with its third fund, believes there’s mighty value in later-stage companies and smaller acquisition prices.

How to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock

in News on April 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm PT

Silicon Valley-ites have had a tougher time getting rich for much of this decade because their normal routes to huge fortunes–the sale or IPO of their startup tech companies–have been crimped by new regulations and poor market conditions, which have worsened in this recession.