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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Oct 15th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Dave: We are a little bit different from many other programs where the advisors are primarily coming from the investor category. In our world, those are mostly coming from the operational field category. Most of our mentors are coming from engineering, marketing, or design backgrounds, maybe product

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 14th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you made? Dave: It’s a little hard to keep track at times, those deals are things that I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year, probably 43, maybe 44 in calendar year 2010. Although the fund’s only been operating for

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 13th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Dave: I was fortunate to have folks like Reid Hoffman and other folks as mentors or guides. They gave me a few tips. I ended up doing some consulting for  and also becoming an investor in Mint. That was one of the more notable investments that I’ve

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 12th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirtieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Dave McClure, an angel investor and the founder of 500 Startups, which is a seed fund and startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California. Irina: Hi Dave, Let’s start briefly with

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