Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Basil Peters, CEO and Fund Manager, Fundamental Technologies II (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your preferred investment type? Basil: You really ask a hard question there. Five years ago, if you had asked me, I would have said common shares. I have been one of the strongest advocates in America of simple structures and common shares. But in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Basil Peters, CEO and Fund Manager, Fundamental Technologies II (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you with those businesses that your fund rejects, if anything? Basil: I try and help everybody in some way. My personal goal, which I don’t always achieve, but when things are working the way I want them to, I always want to leave every

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From Free To Premium With Ease: YouSendIt Cofounder Ranjith Kumaran (Part 1)

Ranjith Kumaran is the founder and chief technology officer for YouSendIt. Prior to YouSendIt, Kumaran held marketing positions at Verisity Design, and he was the director of sales engineering at Celoxica. He has also worked as a software systems engineer at Red Hat. Kumaran received a bachelor of engineering degree in computer engineering from McGill

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Basil Peters, CEO and Fund Manager, Fundamental Technologies II (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do teams have to have prior business experience? Basil: I don’t require that. I don’t think it’s a good filter, because if you look at the track record of entrepreneurs, there’s very little correlation between whether it’s their first venture or their third or fourth or

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Basil Peters, CEO and Fund Manager, Fundamental Technologies II (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: When you invest, what is your average dollar amount? Basil: That varies. It varies a lot. I can invest anything from $10,000 to $500,000 in one deal. Irina: How many companies do you have in your portfolio right now? Basil: Seven.

World Cup Diary: Spain’s Moment

Spain’s moment has finally arrived. The Germans trampled England and Argentina, but just couldn’t break through the Spaniards. It’s nice to see two teams that have never won get to the finals. In the WSJ today, an article suggests that Europe will avoid a double-dip recession in 2010: “A regular quarterly survey released Wednesday by

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