Activity Email Invest Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2014
I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. So that means 2-3 good investments a year and we are doing well.
Berkonomics
MARCH 13, 2014
Email readers, continue here.] None of the angels in my group is likely to write a check without hearing and believing a story about how something dramatic is about to happen. He is an active angel investor, and he manages several angel funds in Texas. . Story seems to be an artifact of the human brain, and soul.
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Berkonomics
MAY 22, 2014
Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more. In most cases, those entrepreneurs choosing to raise capital using PPMs retain specialists (many of whom are lawyers) to write their PPMs – a rather expensive undertaking. By Bill Payne.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 5, 2022
Even in this age of more remote teams, it’s possible and necessary, through phones, email, and social media to have individual conversations about individual interests and drivers. I have found that introducing fun and creative activities is a great way to inspire people to share a few details about themselves.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others. We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat. Let me give you a real world example from this week.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 14, 2018
I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2018
Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”
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