Archive for January 2018 By: Ham Lord, Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group and Co-Founder of Seraf-investor.com and Christopher Mirabile, ACA Chair Emeritus, Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group and Co-Founder of Seraf-investor.com. Readers can learn more at the Summit session, “Valuing Startups: A New and Nuanced Approach” with both Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile speaking. This post originally appeared on Seraf-investor.com Having evaluated four common methods for valuing early stage companies, it's time to take a closer look at the Seraf Method which builds on everything great that has come before it (with the debt of gratitude acknowledged!), but adds key refinements necessary to make it work reliably in real life. In a nutshell, the Seraf Method consists of four simple steps, which we have boiled down into three worksheets and a look-up table. Tags:  By: Marianne Hudson, ACA Executive Director As we celebrate the beginning of 2018, the Angel Capital Association celebrates a good 2017 for many of our member angels, groups, and platforms. Many of you had awesome exits, which is always something to celebrate! Media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Xconomy, and Forbes covered your milestones, great years, and recommendations to investors for great best practices or to entrepreneurs on raising equity capital. And with #MeToo making big news in 2017, we especially appreciate our many members who provided true action to bring more women and people of color to angel investing. Here are just some of our favorite articles about and by ACA members last year: Tags: By: Marianne Hudson, ACA Executive Director I thought you would be interested in a handy summary of the tax reform bill, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which was signed into law by the President just before the Christmas holiday. It is by Bloomberg Government and was done before some small tweaks by the Senate, but should be pretty close to the final law. There are three things to know about tax reform that affect angel investors and new companies, most of which ACA supported and promoted on Capitol Hill: |
