Tagged: venture capital

December 20, 2012 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Series A crunch boils down to this: Too many seed fundings, too few follow-on A financings. In other words, excessive supply and limited demand. So if you want to get your arms around the expected funding shortfall, do the math. That’s what CB Insights… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 6:37 am By JD Alois  |  

There was an article published on Business Insider recently by James Pethokoukis from the American Enterprise Group talking about how public policy is stifling entrepreneurs in the United States.  He had some pretty interesting information to back up this statement. First lets look at some… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 2:05 am By Washington Business Journal  |  

Startups today are whining about the lack of funding available after raising a family-and-friends or angel seed round. They’re calling it the “Series A Crunch.” Angel investors made approximately 60,000 seed stage investments in 2011. In the same year, Venture capitalists made just under 2,000… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 10:44 am By Zach Noorani  |  

A new wave of angel investors is about to descend on startup land.  These New Angels are you and I.  AngelList will connect us to the market.  Equity crowdfunding platforms will broker our deals.  And the JOBS Act will make it all legal. While a… Read More

November 2, 2012 @ 11:28 am By Tanya Prive, Forbes  |  

As a co-founder of RockThePost, the leading crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs, I naturally advocate for startups to get funding via crowdfunding, as it provides several additional benefits that can prove very useful early on. On the flip side, other options to obtain funding include personally funding your venture, reaching… Read More

October 31, 2012 @ 1:30 pm By Sherwood Niess and Jason Best, Crowdfund Capital Advisors  |  

Here’s a Halloween tale sure to leave you awake at night. It’s the tale of Zombie Capital… the scourge of the American economy, sucking the very life out of the public equity markets. (Okay, we all know zombies normally eat brains, but for the sake… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

As venture capital funding dropped 12 percent in the last quarter, it’s not easy for new venture capital firms to raise capital, Quartz reports. Investment usually goes into more established firms, like First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, according to the article. First Round Capital… Read More

October 22, 2012 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stephen Hawking once said: “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” Bold statement. But as I’ve been working on organizing the upcoming Next Generation and Global CrowdFunding Forum which is set to be on November 16th here… Read More