Moonshot to EBITDA Tech Focus
7. Invest In Real Estate
There are lots of strategies, but a 1031 exchange in real estate allows you to defer paying capital gains taxes on an investment property when it is sold. Almost all high-net-worth individuals have investments in real estate and the 1031 exchange is one of the key tools. – JD Morris, Red Hook Capital
read the full article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2019/08/29/15-financial-experts-share-the-industrys-best-kept-secrets/#59a6322a77bf
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 9, 2019– AppZen, the world’s leading AI platform for modern finance teams, announced today that it has secured $50 million in Series C funding led by Coatue Management. Existing investors Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated in the round. This brings the company’s total investment to more than $100 million. AppZen will use the new funding to accelerate its mission to become the leading artificial intelligence (AI) platform for CFOs and their teams to reduce spend, comply with policy and streamline process.
Read more: https://apnews.com/Business%20Wire/8f2963e6c60247238c3d69cb51e6d57e
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I have seen some amazing data showing the market leader is not always the winner.
SLACK
Will Slack break the rule? Symphony raised $165 million, but is Slack the market leader.
Or was Slack just making a better dialed in product. People could have used Google products or texted to each other.
FACEBOOK (vs MySpace)
OTHERS
More to come…..
Welcome people input and welcome debate. Contact me at jdm.networking@gmail.com
I am interviewing people for stories on how M&A played key roles in the success of many companies. From Microsoft need a system for IBM to Google/Facebook dominating ads by acquisitions.
GOOGLE / Alphabet
MICROSOFT – Day one acquisition (kinda):
Microsoft founder could not develop fast enough a system for IBM, so the acquired a company for its DOS software.
For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, which it branded as MS-DOS, although IBM rebranded it to IBM PC DOS.
-DOS had a command structure and application programming interface that imitated that of Digital Research‘s CP/M operating system, which made it easy to port programs from the latter. The system was licensed and then purchased by Microsoft and developed further as MS-DOS and PC DOS.[1] Source: https://www.msx.org/wiki/The_History_of_MSX-DOS
URL for Full Report: http://redhookcapital.co/2019/05/rhc-pipeline-report-v19-22/
RHC PIPELINE REPORT
XFactor Ventures, a NYC-based venture capital firm focused on investing in companies with at least one female founder, launched its second fund, with $8.6m in capital commitments
Santé Ventures, an Austin, Texas-based healthcare and life sciences investment firm, closed its third fund, at $250m
Global agrifood investment firm Finistere Ventures, venture investor OurCrowd, Israeli food manufacturer Tnuva, and Israeli beverage company Tempo Beverages created a consortium to invest $100M in Israeli agrifood startups
The pipeline report profiles total of 8 new funds.
See more: http://redhookcapital.co/2019/05/rhc-pipeline-report-v19-22/
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More to come……
“How to Lie with Statistics that #9,863 in ALL Books on Amazon is a must and funny read! I am sure they have been number one in their category than any of the books I had at number one (for 30 – 180 minutes),” say JD Morris.
Sadly I am not David Morin at #31 with 57 investments, but for the month of April David Morris (aka JD) invested with friends and family in several deals in April (TBA). Our friends and family have $5 million plus of dry powder for funds to early-stage deals. Between 2 pm and 5 pm April 1, 2019, we most likely did the most investing in 2019 = we can create our own list with Crunchbase’s help!
“Know when to spin, know when to pivot, and know when to fold!” – JD Morris
“firstrate team with a second-rate idea will always outperform a second-rate team with a first-rate idea.” – What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea
According to data from Crunchbase below are 50 angels ranked by the number of investments made.
1) Fabrice Grinda (245 investments)
2) Paul Buchheit (135 investments)
3) Wei Guo (129 investments)
4) Alexis Ohanian (126 investments)
5) Scott Banister (126 investments)
6) Naval Ravikant (121 investments)
7) Daniel Curran (114 investments)
8) Marc Benioff (113 investments)
9) Mark Cuban (110 investments)
10) Simon Murdoch (99 investments)
11) Ron Conway (89 investments)
12) Esther Dyson (86 investments)
13) Kevin Moore (85 investments)
14) David Tisch (83 investments)
15) Dave McClure (79 investments)
16) Semil Shah (74 investments)
17) Max Levchin (72 investments)
18) Jason Calacanis (72 investments)
19) Benjamin Ling (70 investments)
20) Brendan Wallace (67 investments)
21) Tim Draper (66 investments)
22) James Sowers (65 investments)
23) Auren Hoffman (65 investments)
24) Lee Linden (64 investments)
25) Joanne Wilson (63 investments)
26) Farzad Nazem (60 investments)
27) Joshua Schachter (59 investments)
28) Garry Tan (59 investments)
29) Rajan Anandan (57 investments)
30) Xavier Niel (57 investments)
31) Dave Morin (57 investments)
32) Jose Marin (57 investments)
33) Reid Hoffman (55 investments)
34) Keith Rabois (55 investments)
35) Will Herman (55 investments)
36) Scott Belsky (53 investments)
37) Rick Marini (53 investments)
38) Charlie Songhurst (52 investments)
39) Hesham Zreik (52 investments)
40) Bashar Hamood (52 investments)
41) Brad Harrison (51 investments)
42) Gary Vaynerchuk (50 investments)
43) Clark Landry (50 investments)
44) Wayne Chang (50 investments)
45) Dharmesh Shah (50 investments)
46) Mitchell Kapor (50 investments)
47) Ullas Naik (48 investments)
48) Raymond Tonsing (48 investments)
49) Kevin Mahaffey (48 investments)
50) Elad Gil (45 investments)
We all know that venture capital can be a tricky beast. Best exits and timelines are not always concrete when funding happens. Some of the biggest startups with multi-billion dollar valuations have kept raising money in new rounds, without selling or going public. Those may prove to be some of the best investments in the long term. Yet, it is important for entrepreneurs to know which potential partners have had real success in exits.
Here are the five angel investors, in order of the number of exits:
Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman also have an over 50% exit rate versus the number of investments they’ve made.
For more information check contact us at InvestorNetworkbyJD@gmai.com anytime!
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