My angel group completed its first “medium risk/reward” deal, one that has a much lower (we hope) risk profile than a traditional startup, but therefore likely has a much lower upside as well. Here is a copy of our announcement: RVI invests in Springfield-based DX Urgent Care Gary Martinelli leads RVI’s investment RVI Deal [...]
This interview brings one person’s view on social media & gaming. My major take-away is that the angel community might be taking stronger interest in the game industry… now that it is merging with mobile & social. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/66749774/
Conventional wisdom is that, generally speaking, geek CEOs are a Bad Idea. Serial entrepreneur and entrepreneurship educator extraordinaire Steve Blank disagrees… How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. It might be its [...]
A nice interview (written AND video) with an angel investor sharing his top five best practices for securing angel capital. Find it at: http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/06/interview-angel-investors-five-keys-raising-capital/
If your angel group doesn’t know about the Power Of Angel Investing seminars, you should. These are structured, well-tested programs that can help the angels in your group, and the group itself, significantly increase their ability, and confidence, to execute deals.
Thanks to an interesting NYT article, I learned of the Pipeline Fund, an organization dedicated to helping aspiring women angels become extremely succesful women angels investing in woman-backed social ventures… The overwhelmingly male field of angel investing is about to become a bit more diverse. Ten women, including some business owners (TechCrunch has the full [...]
This isn’t how I would recommend you use crowdsourcing to help your portfolio, but interesting none-the-less… A Monaco-based Angel investor has asked users of Google+ to vote for their favourite Web-based start-up that publishes their pitch on Google Plus, and he will invest $10,000 in the most popular. Full Story: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8642745.htm
In preparation for our upcoming strategy retreat for my angel group I have spoken with a dozen leaders of angel groups, mostly from the Northeast but also from other parts of the country. This blog post quickly summarizes that research and points to blog posts that expand on each topic in detail. I hope [...]
In a recent post I shared the story of how $5 gift cards motivated multimillionaire angel investors to do work that helped their angel group a great deal – but that they had never bothered to do before. I also asked about creating levels of engagement for angels. What follows is a simple brainstorm of [...]
RVI Portfolio company Incentive Targeting, which when we co-led the investment was the largest angel-led deal in New England history, has gained some great momentum in a partnership with GroupOn. Congrats to the company for their continued progress! Two great blog posts with more details (by Angels): Ty Danco – co-lead investor in the deal [...]
