Susan | Angel Investor
I backed 13 ‘unicorns’ at pre-seed and seed. Writing for angels who want better returns and for startup founders who want their attention.
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The Board Fired The Founder as CEO, Sold His Company and Cost Him $7.2M.
The money didn’t vanish at the sale. It left in the instalments I lay out below and started as early as the seed round.
The board voted 3-2 to remove the founder as CEO and a few weeks later voted 3-2 again to sell his company for $45M ove...
The Angels Who Paid $26 a Share But Were Offered 35 Cents
A group of angels once paid up to $26 a share for common stock in a company called Akademos but a Delaware court has since ruled those shares were worth zero, after a deal it found entirely fair and a process in which nobody broke a single...
The Funding Stage Trap That’s Costing Founders Millions
Founders who choose a label before they have the evidence get priced on the evidence anyway and then they get punished for the distance between the two.
A while ago a founder was pitching me on a video call and described his raise as pre-s...
When It Goes Wrong: What Angels and Founders Do Next
Most books about startups are about the ones that worked. This is not one of them, which makes it the more useful kind.
The companies that worked are statistical freaks and the lessons of a freak are the lessons of luck, pretending to be...
The AI bubble is a problem for the giants but a windfall for founders and angels
Nvidia owns part of Nscale. It’s also Nscale’s customer, the guarantor on its Texas lease and the company that sold it every chip it runs, all of which is laid out in the IPO prospectus Nscale filed on September 18 (AI Circular Economy has...
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