How To Select Your Angel Investors
Silicon Alley Insider Nov 03 09
I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following. A VC firm signs a term sheet with an early stage company. Let’s say it’s a $2M round. The VC and entrepreneurs decide to set aside $500K for small investors (individual investors or micro-VCs). Because it’s a “hot” deal, there is way more small investor interest than there is capacity (the round is “oversubscribed”), and the entrepreneur needs to decide which investors are in and which are out.
The most common mistake entrepreneurs make is to base their choice solely on the investors’ “celebrity” value (by “celebrity” I generally mean in the TechCrunch sense, not the People magazine sense). Full story...
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