Investor Herd Dynamics

Re:Investor Herd Dynamics by jacquesm on Monday August 12, 2013 @07:39PM (#6202995)

This is spot on. When I found out that a fellow entrepreneur had been pushed and pulled around trying to get funding for months without any solid commitment I put two of the angels involved on the spot in a meeting and asked them if I committed a certain sum of money for how much we could count on them. The round closed with 5 investors within a few days.

All it takes is for someone to cross the bridge of commitment and others will follow. The fact that I'm probably two orders of magnitude poorer than the other investors probably helped in embarrassing them to make a move, it was literally peanuts to them and the company went on to moderate success.

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Re:Investor Herd Dynamics by speeder on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:00AM (#6205399)

This is a problem when noone wants to lead though.

Here at my company we tried to make a pre-A round of sorts (mostly because we are in Brazil, and investors here are unwilling to invest anything close to a A round here).

We had several people commit saying that if other people go, they will go too... But we found noone to commit as leader, and all the other commited investors refused to go without a lead investor, kinda annoying situation.

Happily our seed investor liked our recent results and expanded his seed investment instead.

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