But to the question of how a VC thinks
about your angel money if you do raise it, here are my thoughts:
How do VC's think
about your angel money structure?
The conversation
about angel money is one I have all the time with entrepreneurs so I thought it would make for a good post on understanding angel investing — how they think, how you should think and how the first round venture capital firm will think by the time the deal gets to them.
Not exact matches
I'm not talking
about Angel Funds, where a group of
Angels pool their
money to make investments.
He raised $ 6 million from investors, including Silicon Valley's Band of
Angels, and used the
money to launch a recycling operation that now turns out
about 500,000 pounds of different grades of plastics a month.
In his new book,
angel investor Brian Cohen talks
about the importance of getting smart
money for your startup.
A prolific
angel investor, he has put
money in
about a dozen companies in 2016 alone.
There was open discussion in Atlanta
about the fact that lots of
angels haven't made
money yet.
Fighting one another over which of two antiquated modes of
money - making is more worthy / noble / artistic / you - name - it is like the old story of the people in Constantinople arguing
about how many
angels could dance on a pinhead while the city walls were being battered down.