admin An entrepreneur’s most valuable resource is time. Starting and building a company puts extreme stress on the ability of anyone to manage all the different personal and professional responsibilities involved. There just aren’t enough hours in the day for most entrepreneurs. At least that’s true for most of those who are successful. With all of … Read more
In this exclusive interview Peter Thiel–co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of Founders Fund–discusses why he invested in Facebook, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and why he would not start PayPal today knowing what he now knows. (Disclosure: Thiel is an investor in CapLinked.) Last fall you announced the “20 Under 20” scholarship … Read more
Today we’re speaking with Adam Preskill of Peninsula Entertainment. What were you raising capital for? We were raising $100k to fund an independent feature documentary. The film is still untitled at the moment, but it tells the true story of the Quileute Tribe, the Native American Tribe featured in The Twilight Saga, and will be … Read more
Today we’re speaking with Jim Andelman, general partner of Rincon Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund located in Southern California. What are the most important factors you take into account when considering an investment? If the top three in real estate are location, location and location, the top three for us when investing in … Read more
Are You Mark Zuckerberg, Colonel Sanders, or John DeLorean? Nobody likes to talk about failure. It’s not fun or sexy. We live in a culture that worships success, no matter how you get there, and is disgusted by and afraid of failure, no matter what the reason. This is especially true of entrepreneurs. We live … Read more
CapLinked made it a lot easier to manage my list of prospective investors. Salesforce and Outlook have good CRM tools, but they really aren’t designed for managing investor contacts and they don’t have tools meant specifically for putting a private deal in front of leads.
Companies in the process of raising capital can now embed a badge on their website or blog that links back to their CapLinked profile. They can also display a “raising capital” notice on their CapLinked company profile, next to a button that allows visitors to send a message to the company’s contact person. Embedding a … Read more
A key factor in negotiating a VC raise is the amount of “runway” a startup has left—the number of months before it will be out of money completely. A startup with a short runway will need to raise money fast (and their investors will know it—and will know they can get a big chunk of … Read more
CapLinked is on the move! We’ve introduced a number of improvements to make it easier to manage contacts and communicate about a deal. New and Improved Connections. The address book has been renamed “Connections” to better represent how it works. Connections have now been fully integrated with CapLinked’s features for sharing deals, inviting people to … Read more
One of the least understood, yet most important, parts of the investment business is due diligence. Everybody has a different idea of what it is, why it exists, and how it should be conducted. For many entrepreneurs and brokers, due diligence is the enemy. They fear due diligence will be used and excuse to kill … Read more
