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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: For seed deals, typically we get a small amount of the ownership. In many instances, we’re less sensitive than angel investors for whom the seed is . . . that’s when they buy shares. That’s their investment. For us, maybe we’ll invest $100,000 or $200,000 in
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 10)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: We’re very efficient with the way we work with our attorneys; we can typically on our side, do an investment for $20,000 to $25,000 in legal fees. A lot of the documents are fairly templated. You know, you amortize that over $1 million, it’s not a
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 9)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: We were talking about one of your investments, Columbia Power Technologies. Eric: It’s a pretty early stage based on how far they have to go to get to where they want to be for us. They have not finished some of the designs on the turbine,
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
