1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amos Ben-Meir at Sand Hill Angels (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about the highlights of your portfolio? Amos Ben-Meir: I’ve done a number of exits that range from small to reasonable. There are two companies that are worth more than a billion. One is JUUL, which is an electronic cigarette company. There are people who are not fond of that type

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amos Ben-Meir at Sand Hill Angels (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you’re looking at enterprise deals, what are you comfortable with in terms of validation level? Are you looking for paying customers? Product ready but with no customers?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amos Ben-Meir at Sand Hill Angels (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about your other syndicate group? Does it have the same kind of structure? Amos Ben-Meir: OurCrowd is actually a venture firm. It was formed around 2013 by an experienced venture capitalist by the name of Jonathan Medved. They basically raised a fund of their own. They vet deals like a normal venture

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amos Ben-Meir at Sand Hill Angels (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me try to ask you some questions that would help us understand how to work with you for our entrepreneurs. Let’s double-click down on Sand Hill Angels. Could you please explain to our audience how Sand Hill Angels work? What would be the procedure for us to work with you? Let’s say

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amos Ben-Meir at Sand Hill Angels (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Amos Ben-Meir of Sand Hill Angels was recorded in February 2018. Amos Ben-Meir, Investor and Board Director at Sand Hill Angels, is a veteran angel investor. You will hear lots of details

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Anu: The other thing people need to understand is that technology is becoming mainstream. When technology becomes mainstream, you get winners and losers. And what’s happening now is it’s getting harder and harder to be a big Internet player. And, you could say that for biotech, too,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is Sand Hill’s sector preference? Anu: It has to have technology or some sense of innovation to it. We’re not going to do a classic consumer goods company or a real estate company. It has to deal with technology in some way. Mostly, IT, some

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are other important factors for you when you make your decision about any particular entrepreneur? Anu: One of the biggest factors is, Is this something you’ve done before? Are you someone who’s worked at Oracle and is now doing a database company? Do you know

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