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As a director on an early stage company board, how do you evaluate the performance of the board? And, how do you evaluate your individual contribution to the board? Those are very important questions that very few early stage company boards take the time and effort to...

In our previous article Spade Work: How Early Stage Board Directors Add Value, we discussed some best practices which we gathered from both our personal experience of sitting on company boards, and from some very successful VCs, angel investors, and advisors. We laid...

As an active angel investor in the Boston tech sector, I witnessed many paths to a successful return on my invested capital. Sometimes the path is short and sweet. Other times the path is long and convoluted, but ultimately leads to a happy ending. I subscribe to the...

There can be tremendous advantages to working with angels in groups. The key is the speed with which an entrepreneur can find her champions.  There is more process, but the results justify the effort.

As your angel career develops, and you start to build a larger portfolio of companies, you are increasingly asked to make follow-on investments. Not only do companies need investment to get off the ground, the faster they grow, the more cash they need. Whether to...

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We’ve published a fair amount about due diligence and being a deal lead. In those pieces we talk a lot about the importance of having a good diligence template to ensure the final product is useful to the reader. Here for your reference is our Due Diligence Report...

So, do you think you have what it takes to be a great board member? Take a moment…don’t give a quick answer. Think about it long and hard, because a board member can have a major positive or negative impact on a company’s future success. You shouldn’t jump into a...

Do you know what the magic moment is when an entrepreneur can say to her team that she is in diligence with a potential investor? It’s certainly not at the first meeting with the investor. And, most likely it’s not at the second meeting. 

Join Seraf in this webinar with Andrew Kazlow as he walks through what the latest data shows, what surprised him, and what it means for the way angels make decisions going forward.