Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your current source of deal flow? Ho: Most deals we get come from our network. We have several thousand people working across our different portfolio companies, so the network has grown over time; entrepreneurs we’ve worked with in the past or people who have

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: And what about your equity share and your returns? Do you have any rules about those numbers? Brad: Again, it varies dramatically. We don’t have a specific rule. Our goal is to work with entrepreneurs to build as much value as possible. Irina: What stage of

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brad: And then we look at the actual entrepreneurs behind the product, and we do that in concert. I don’t actually think you can really evaluate a product effectively without using it or having interactions with the entrepreneurs so, we tend to lump those two together.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the sixteenth interview in our series on seed financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Ho Nam, general partner at Altos Ventures, a first-stage venture capital firm, based in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley. Irina: Hi, Ho. Why don’t you start with your background? Ho: I

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you spend time with the entrepreneurs? Brad: They come to us and we go to them; we spend a lot of time together. I think it’s really us developing that relationship with them. We made an investment recently in a company called Sifteo, I’m

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jeff: The one thing that we have going for us is that we do see so many patterns and so many deals and teams. We’ve done so many experiments – eighty-two, in my case, over six years – and seen what’s successful and what’s unsuccessful. Each deal

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jeff Clavier, Founder And Managing Partner, SoftTech VC (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you require the people to have senior executive experience? Jeff: No. Half of my entrepreneurs are first-time entrepreneurs. The youngest entrepreneur I’ve backed was nineteen, and he had already done three companies. I think the oldest entrepreneur I’ve backed was fifty-five.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Have you ever thought about what could make your deal flow more efficient? Brad: I like the chaos. I like the randomness of it. I have plenty of interactions with people. I try to learn at least one thing in every interaction. We’re very focused on

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