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Angel Poison

by Shurtleff on May 12, 2009

I was helping an entrepreneur evaluate a term sheet recently.  He was very excited to have a Venture Investor leading his series A round, but as is often the case, the devil (or in this case poison) was in the details:


Venture Pattern Matching

by Shurtleff on March 19, 2008

Venture bloggers occasionally write about our process,  This post continues on the theme, how do VCs really make decisions that result in investing in a company.
A core trait of human nature is pattern matching past experiences to predict future experience. Listening to Blink by Malcom Gladwell, on the way to and from skiing last weekend [...]


Bridges to Nowhere

by Shurtleff on February 2, 2008

Bridge notes can provide investors with a discount in exchange for putting up money along the way to a major financing. Bridge notes can allow an individual or small fund to get into a deal when there might not be room in a round being funded by larger institutional investors. Bridge notes leave [...]