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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
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: In our last financing, we, the Oregon Angels Fund, put in $650,000; there was another $440,000 that came in from just our investors who are within our group. That was a record but typically, one of our investments is followed by a $100,000 to $200,000 of
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your educational background? Eric: I have a bachelor’s of science from Brown University. I sold scientific instrumentation for number of years out of college, and then I went back to Dartmouth for an MBA. I graduated in 1980 and came out to work for
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Venktesh Shukla, Chair, TiE Angels (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: In your work as an angel investor, what are your daily challenges? Venktesh: Well, there’s one company that I really like, and they have a technology which they claim is breakthrough. In concept on paper it looks great, but all the people and all the big
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: We start each monthly meeting with an hour discussion of the 8 to 10 applicants, and everyone has a little anonymous voting machine and we vote on which two we want to present at our next meeting. Once we’ve selected the two to present – and
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Venktesh Shukla, Chair, TiE Angels (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Would you consider investing in a $20 million niche market? Venktesh: Yes. If it’s a $20 million market and somebody owns a decent chunk of the company and the valuation is, within two years of investing in it, let’s say, $4 million. The company gets acquired
