Product Focused Teams vs Business Focused Teams
Jeff Bussgang talks about product focused entrepreneurs vs business focused entrepreneurs. Jeff believes that teams need both skills on order to succeed. Sometimes they are found in one founder but...
View ArticleDave Balter's Ideal Founding Team
The most important quality in Dave's ideal founding team is how they communicate with one another. Industry experience and complimentary skills are important, but Dave feels that a good internal...
View ArticleFred Wilson's Ideal Founder Team
Fred's ideal team is composed of a CEO, a designer, and a couple of engineers. The CEO needs enough project management skills to help the team bring the product to market, and the designers ability to...
View ArticleThe Birth of Wefunder & Our Guiding Principles
Here's an embarrassing fact: last November, when Nick Plante told me about the crowdfunding legislation in Congress, I thought the entire concept was idiotic. I envisioned thousands of scammy...
View ArticleWhat's cool about being an investor?
Eric Paley tells us what he thinks is so cool about being an investor, namely helping entrepreneurs turns their dreams into reality. Eric Paley is a successful entrepreneur and managing partner at the...
View ArticleWhat's Most Fulfilling About Investing?
Jeff's most fulfilling moments as an investor are when he gets to witness the little-wins that lead to building a successful company. The process of company building is a step-by-step process and...
View ArticleWhat is the best part of investing?
The best part of investing for Dave is helping entrepreneurs turn their dreams into companies. Watching an entrepreneur grow as a person through starting their business and being along for the ride...
View ArticleConvertible Notes
One of the most common methods used to invest in early stage startups is something called a convertible note. A convertible note is a loan that converts into equity after the company has a bit more...
View ArticleHow to Legally Crowd Invest.... Now.
On April 5th, President Obama signed the CROWDFUND Act into law, allowing anyone - regardless of wealth - to invest at least $2000 into the startups they care about. Startups will be able to raise up...
View ArticleHow To Approach Investing
Jeff Bussgang describes how crowd investors should approach the process of investing. First you should choose how much money you want to risk in startup investments; second, you should choose how many...
View ArticleTraction is the only thing that matters for web startups
Paul Singh talks about why traction is the most important thing when evaluating web startups. IP shouldn't matter to investors since it is difficult to defend, and mimicking functionality is relatively...
View ArticleHow Startups Can Use Wefunder
Thank you for coming to Wefunder! We started this journey back in December 2011 with one goal in mind. We wanted to introduce startups to the investors who are most passionate about helping them...
View ArticleShorter Flights at Lower Heights: The Right Way To Angel Invest
This is a guest post from Dave Balter. Dave is the CEO of BzzAgent, founder of Smarterer, an active angel investor and a holder of proms. You can follow Dave on twitter @davebalter Everywhere you turn...
View ArticleDeciding Why You Invest
Paul Singh talks about what motivates different investors. Some investors are motivated only by financial returns, others invest because they like an industry, and still others do it to give back....
View ArticleOpportunities in Digital Health
At Wefunder we love companies that solve important problems, and few problems loom larger than solving the US health care crisis. Rock Health has assembled a set of reports that describe the...
View ArticleWhy General Solicitation Matters
One of the most important ways that the JOBS Act helps entrepreneurs is through something called general solicitation. As a result of the legislation, January is likely to mark the first time that...
View ArticleWhy You Should Consider Women Entrepreneurs
This is a guest post by Loretta McCarthy, an investor and managing director at Golden Seeds . You can follow Loretta on twitter at @lorettamccarthy There is much mention of the merits of investors...
View ArticleStartup of the Month & Our Fundraising Round
It’s been nearly a year since Wefunder launched a petition to Congress to legalize crowd investing. It’s almost here.The SEC is expected to implement the first part of the JOBS Act, enabling...
View ArticleThe Startup of the Week
One of the coolest parts of my job is that I’m always around startup founders who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world.I love listening to their stories. How did they get started?...
View ArticleWe've started charging
After raising funding for four startups, we've learned a lot, and have decided to start charging.On Wefunder, we want startups with so much potential and traction, famous investors are practically...
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