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Angel Report - Mobile investment on the rise

The HALO Report. In Q3'13, Mobile sector investments by angels nearly doubled from those in the quarter prior. Median angel round size stayed flat at $520k. Presented in partnership with Silicon Valley Bank and the Angel Resource Institute, here is the summary.

Tech VCs are less & less interested in Massachusetts

I'm bored. While the # of unique VC investors doing deals in NY has climbed across all stages of investment, Massachusetts has been unable to keep pace. If investor interest in a market is a good indication of its vitality, things are not looking good for Mass.  See the full brief on Mass. vs. NY as analyzed by investor interest.

CB Insider Posts

The following research is only available to paid subscribers with CB Insider access:

• HALO Report: Angel Investment Trends in Q3 2013
• The Most Active Investors in Human Capital Management Tech
• The 2013 Venture Capital Financing and Exit Annual Report

 

Venture capital deals hit five-year high in 2013

The 2013 VC Financing and Exit Report. VC deal activity in 2013 stayed strong on the back of a continued seed surge. Mobile VC funding crossed the $1B mark in two consecutive quarters. With a new $1.5B fund on the way in 2014, Andreessen Horowitz was the most active VC investor in 2013. More of 2013's VC funding and exit highlights are available here and in our 104 page 2013 VC Annual Report.

"Tech failures painful, but often don't carry stigma"

The cold hard reality. Tech startup failures often get swept under the rug to keep industry and investment morale high. But just this week, three investor-backed startups announced their closures. See the San Francisco Chronicle feature on the realities of tech failure and our cited data on startup death trends.

Check us out on Github

Open source y'all. We've recently open sourced an API wrapper written in PHP that makes developing with the CB Insights API a breeze as well as Go library for hard disk caching.  Follow our Github repos to keep upto date and to contribute code. (devs - we're hiring)

The Chart of the Day

Every day, we share a chart or visualization on Twitter. Here's a few of the most popular from the last week:

• Hedge funds & mutual funds ramp up private tech investments
• Number of paid apps in the App Store Top 1000 by genre
• Total corporate venture arms with an IPO exit hits multi-year high

Insights on Startups

Interesting articles by or about startups and starting up.

• Don't Glorify Startup Failure: Startup failure is a fact of startups (see 51 that will attest). But we should also be careful about glorifying startup failure by Ben Yoskovitz (@byosko)

• The Part They Don't Tell You About Startup Team Building: How founders and managers should build a self-sustaining and empowered team by Tomasz Tunguz (@ttunguz)

• Should Startups Focus on Building a Community? A strong and loyal community can carry a lot of advantages even at the earliest stages of a company by David Spinks (@davidspinks)

• Make Customers Pay - "I've not become a heartless, bottomline-driven d@<k, but I have decided to draw a line in the sand" (@adii)

• Awesome list of startup resources - There is a ton here so just bookmark it.  It is muy bien. (@emollick)

• 19 genius products - Think about the user first. Some products that demonstrate that. (@viralnova)

• The 10 worst pieces of startup advice - Everyone loves a startup cliche. Except these guys. (@venturevillage)

Our Last Two Newsletters

In case you missed them:

• 51 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
• The R.I.P. Report - Startup Death Data & Trends