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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Can angels invest alongside the LLC? Can they invest additional money on top of what the LLC is offering? Anu: Only members can invest in the LLC. We syndicate with a lot of angel groups, individual angels, and VCs. So, a round may be $1 million,
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,
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
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
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you think about the return you would like to have over a certain period? Anu: We’re different from a VC firm in that we don’t have IRR [internal return on investment], and we don’t have LPs [limited partners]. It’s our own money.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do the angels gain access to the deals that are received? Anu: Everything is done through Angelsoft. I think we were one of the first users of Angelsoft. Most angel groups use it. Irina: What do you like about Angelsoft? Is there any fees? Anu:
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Anu: Around 2006–2007, I ended up starting another company called 411Sync, which was doing mobile search. It did OK, but it didn’t go anywhere. And then I spent a year and a half trying different things. Now I’ve been on my new company since May 2008. It’s
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Anurag (Anu) Nigam, President, Sand Hill Angels (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fortieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Anurag (Anu) Nigam, president of Sand Hill Angels, which is an angel investing group in Silicon Valley with more than 60 members. Anu is also the founder and CEO of BuzzBox,