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Disasters in Slow Motion
Nothing’s scarier than tales of investments lost. Join Common Angels‘ James Geshwiler together with Tech Coast Angels JJ Richa and Dave Berkus for a ghoulish discussion of your worst nightmares. Warning: for mature audiences, with well diversified portfolios. Show #391 Stream, flash player or iTunes
John Huston and Dave Berkus, the PreMortem
Dave’s back from a trip to Utrecht; John’s sitting in the rain in Cleveland, and between the three of us we have a lively discussion of early-stage boards and a concept John calls, the Premortem. Dave, long term listeners will remember, is one of Los Angeles’ most active and successful angel investors; he’s made 88 [… Read More]
Karen Wilson at the OECD
It’s not easy tracking angel investment data, so says Karen Wilson in her new book written for the OECD, Financing High Growth Firms, The Role of Angel Investors. I’ve seen her present her research at conferences in Warsaw, Ottawa and Cambridge; today she’s assembled all of it into the book. Would you be surprised to [… Read More]
Venture Capital vs. Angel Investing
The NVCA‘s Head of Research, John Taylor, joins Tech Coast Angels Chairman Emeritus, Dave Berkus, for a lively discussion about the latest trends in early stage investing. During Dave’s introduction he mentions 87 investments, so I have to digress to talk about the latest startup he sent into Screening, AdventureLink. One feature of this funding [… Read More]
Peters, Payne and Skaist: the Elephant in the Room
Early Exits Author, Basil Peters, Hans Severiens Award recipient Bill Payne, and Stradling Yocca’s Mark Skaist. It started as a book, Basil Peters’ Early Exits, now he’s collaborating with Bill Payne to create Early Exits, the workshop; it’s a training class for angel investors and entrepreneurs on the key concepts, perhaps the most important issues [… Read More]
