A curated directory of resources, articles, podcasts, books, VC's, and angel investors to follow that will help you raise funding for your startup or business.
In this article Mission Market Ventures Co-founder and Managing Partner Stefano Bernardi talks about he closed a $2,500,000 fund by raising money from European investors who don’t have access to invest in Silicon Valley startups.
In this article Kirk Coburn goes into great detail about how he pivoted his tech accelerator into a tech accelerator + VC firm and raised the funding to do it.
In this article SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin discusses how he raised $180,000,000 for SaaStr’s fifth venture fund and how VC is a very small asset class, it’s very hard to raise a new fund for a new firm and break into the industry, and more.
In this article Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Founder and Managing Partner Charlie O’Donnell talks about how he closed $8,300,000 in funding for his firm’s Fund I and the challenges he faced along the way.
In this article Brad Feld talks about how Jason Cohen has raised several venture funds to use when investing follow-on money in Techstars companies, and how Jason raised more and more for each fund.
In this article, Gaurav Jain, Principal at Founder Collective, talks about how people can be VC’s without any money by sourcing deals, doing due diligence, and helping with negotiation.
In this article Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham talks about what valuations angel investors should offer startups, how to increase deal flow as an angel investor, and adding value to the startups that you invest in.
In this Quora thread successful angel investors talk about the principles they follow when investing in startups. A few of these principles include being active as an angel, having the ability to tolerate losses, and viewing angel investing like business instead of gambling.
In this article five successful angel investors like Andrew Chen and Jeff Miller share with Quartz what principles they use when looking for successful angel investments.
In this entertaining article bestseller author, entrepreneur, and former angel investor Tucker Max makes the case for why most people should never angel invest.