Seraf Investor Compass

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.

In the beginning of this deal terms series, we observed that the concepts covered in a typical term sheet can be grouped into four main categories of investor concerns: Deal Economics; Investor Rights/Protection; Governance, Management & Control; and...

Experienced investors understand the important distinction between “selling” your company and having someone “buy” your company. It may sound like semantics, but there is a big difference in the price paid in these two scenarios. If you have to “sell” your company,...

Great ideas are a dime a dozen.  Living in the Boston/Cambridge area, we are surrounded by some of the most innovative researchers in the world working at institutions like MIT and Harvard. I’m pretty confident when I say, in Boston, hardly a day goes by when some...

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