Brad Feld
on September 06, 2010 
As individual angel investors made more and more investments, they became super angels. One day a super angel woke up and thought to himself, “Gosh, I could do a lot more investments if I had a fund.” And so the super angels became micro-VCs (or “institutionalized super angels”). Everyone was excited and on the seventh day they did another deal instead of resting.
Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, invests in software and Internet companies around the US. Brad also runs marathons, reads a lot, and writes on his blog: Feld Thoughts. 
Andrew Bellay
on July 28, 2010 
Everyone has an opinion about them. Many love them. Some hate them. Regardless of your opinion, Super Angels have really become a force recently. Most focus on consumer internet because the start-up costs are low (compared to green energy, semiconductors, and healthcare), but when you want to scale a company, when you need millions of users, then you need big capital...Except when sometimes you don't.
So how do the early stage VCs feel? Well there's one key thing to keep in mind: Big funds need big exits. Small funds don't. Enjoy the video, and online discussion!
Andrew Bellay is the VC & Money editor of AlwaysOn. Feel free to send me cool content, new products you'd like reviewed, or any crazy idea and I'll check it out: andrew@aonetwork.com. 
Fred Wilson
on July 20, 2010 
There have been quite a few posts written about this meme in the past few weeks. I think that Paul Kedrosky got the discussion started with this post. Chris Dixon wrote an interesting response. And yesterday John Boyd wrote a thoughtful post on the topic. John makes a point in his post that I want to second and add to. He says:
While many businesses require a lot less capital to start, they don't require less capital to grow.
John's comment made me think about a blog post I wrote three and a half years ago called "Web 2.0 Is A Gift, Not A Threat, To VCs." If you haven't read that post, I would urge you to go read it. I blog because it helps me think through a lot of issues we face in our business and that post was really useful to us over the past several years of investing.
I am a VC. I have been since 1986. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn't the easiest place to build technology companies, but it's getting better. I am the Managing Partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures. I also write at A VC. 
Bijan Sabet
on July 06, 2010 
I’ve been struggling with writing this post for some time. I hope I can do it justice, something tells me that I won’t but I’m going to give it a shot nonetheless. There has been a lot of discussion about the future of venture capital especially in light of all the enthusiasm and support of super angels. Many have suggested there is a math problem with the VC business - specifically too much money in the industry given the exits in this climate and near term climate.
Bijan Sabet is a partner at Spark Capital in Boston and has led investments in Boxee, Bug Labs, ExtensionFM, OMGPOP, SendMe, thePlatform (acquired by Comcast), Tumblr and Twitter. Bijan is also the author of BijanSabet.com. 
Paul Kedrosky
on July 03, 2010 
Unnoticed by almost no-one, the startup financing landscape has been transformed: a combination of ease of entry, lower capital requirements, failing incumbent venture capital (VC) firms, and general fervor has driven the emergence of a host of new "super-seed" firms. These small-ish outfits -- usually running less than $20m -- specialize in seeding a bazillion companies, following on in very few, and generally trying to be fast-moving and networked.
Dr. Kedrosky is an investor, speaker, writer, media guy, and entrepreneur. In his spare time he is a dangerous Twitterer, analyst for CNBC television, and the editor of Infectious Greed, one of the most popular financial blogs available over the Interweb. 
Rob Go
on July 01, 2010 
For better or worse, Micro-VC’s and Super Angels seem to be the new intriguing sub-segment within Venture Capital. Funds like First Round Capital, Floodgate, Lowercase, Founder Collective, IA Venture Partners, Harrison Metal, and Felicis and individuals like Ron Conway, Keith Rabois and others show up multiple times a day on TechCrunch and seem to be behind every high profile investment in the internet world. How did this happen? Are these groups just a new fad or is a fundamental and long lasting change happening in the early-stage financing eco-system?
Rob Go is a co-founder of NextView Ventures, a seed stage investment firm focused on internet enabled innovation, and the author of robgo.org. 
