mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 09 2009 | entrepreneur, angel, vc, startups
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2008 | rescuetime, angel, startups
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2008 | startups, seattle, earth class mail, keiretsu, angel, investing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | angel, investing, startups
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 10 2007 | keiretsu, startups, angel, investing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2006 | web 2.0, startups, vc, angel
I was just discussing Y Combinator with Hans Omli at Mindcamp. He's trying to spool up a similar fund in the Seattle area.
Quoted: Y Combinator primarily invests in software and web services. Twice a year (Fall and Spring), teams submit applications about their ideas, focusing less on business models and more on vision and the founders themselves. Summer teams interview during the Spring in San Francisco, while Winter teams interview during the Fall in Cambridge. If selected, the Summer teams work in Cambridge, while the Winter teams work out of the Bay Area.
redotting Tosh.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2006 | technology, investing, vc, angel, aoa
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 31 2006 | investing, angel
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 31 2006 | investing, angelSurvey of board member and advisory board compensation - 2002.
Quoted: As companies mature and become larger they tend to pay a smaller percentage of equity to their advisory board members. Companies that had raised less ...
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 31 2006 | investing, angel, aoa, kiosk, advertising, display
Met founder Joe McCarthy at my Tullys - because I saw him working on a slide deck that had "Alliance of Angels" lists (yes, I was peeking!). We got to talking - sound like he has an interesting biz idea.
Blue Dot could partner with him to create a very interesting (cross) promotion - you can have a physical event (meetup) and display Blue Dot user's dots/recommendations when they approach the display screen...
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