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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: No founder has the complete package. Whether it’s great technical chops or product chops or business and strategy acumen, you never have a founder who has all of that. When you define what the company needs to do, during the next, say, 12 to 24 months,
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Why do you think you were not successful at investing in people right out of school? What did you learn from that experience? Eric: There are a lot of mistakes one makes in one’s youth, and no matter what you suggest to these folks as an
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: On average, from all your sources, how many applications do you personally get per month? Mike: That’s a good question. Hundreds. Irina: Out of those hundreds, how many deserve a closer look? Mike: I would say maybe 8 to 10 are worth pondering to some extent.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: When you invest do you consider the size of the market? Eric: We just invested in a company that does a catheter for cardiothoracic surgery. It basically is a self-cleaning catheter with a little wire in it and a magnet device that can clear gunk out
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: [With Dogpatch Labs], the idea is for the entrepreneurial community to be engaged and see this as both a place and a group of people to engage with across a variety of different means. The benefit to us is not ownership in the company necessarily. It’s
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 6)
Irina: What percentage of equity do you usually seek? Eric: I think at the low end we’ve been in the 5% to 8% [range]. But I’d say our typical equity percentage would be in the 15% range, you know 12% to 20%. Irina: Do you think in terms of the return that you would like?
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: We do quite a bit of seed investing. We’ve been doing seed investing since Polaris was started. Irina: When was Polaris founded? Mike: It was founded in 1995. That’s when they started raising the first fund, and they started investing in 1996. Irina: What is your
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-seventh interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Mike Hirshland, General Partner at Polaris Ventures. The firm invests in seed, first round, and early stage technology and life science businesses. Headquartered in Boston, it has currently over $3 billion
