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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have a success story to share? Todd: The one that stands out is Napo Pharmaceuticals, which went public in a 24-month time frame. The investors got a fifteen times return. That was nice. We’ve had a lot of positive returns on the real estate
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have a sector preference? Todd: I’d say it goes across the board. But we sold more medical device companies last year. I don’t know why, but we haven’t seen as many this year. It was just kind of one of those years where for
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you pay attention to the total available market (TAM) for companies’ products or services? Todd: Absolutely. We’ve invested as high as $13 million in a company. That was a company where we were swinging for the fences, and we were hoping that that would be
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What’s the typical valuation of a company? Todd: Typical valuations are about $1 million to $5 million. I would say on the high side, between $1 million and $10 million, but most of the companies we’re looking at are between that $1 million and $5 million
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many deals do you receive each month, on average? Todd: Typically, about 40–70 a month for our region alone. Irina: Out of those 40–70, how many deserve a closer look? Todd: We narrow that down to the best seven to nine companies. Those seven to
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold [Todd continues his discussion of why he thinks the group’s model works.] Todd: The third thing is the amount of resources that our members are able to provide to the companies. Anybody can write a check or invest in a company and that’s one thing, but when
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the seventh interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. I am talking to M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum’s Northwest Chapter president. Irina: Hi, Todd. Please tell us about yourself. Todd: I was in insurance for about ten years, and then through a
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 10)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You do track your returns internally, right? And it’s about 20%? Randy: That study was done to the end of 2007. We founded it in September 2000, so it was a seven-year study. The next study is being done right now, and that study will be
