It has been some weeks now we have all seen Ycombinator like model popping up through the United States.
None yet in Europe, the culture is different we all know.
While talking to different people around, i observed many are interested by a seed venture fund / school, call it as you want but no one is taking the lead.
I decided to experiment FROG VENTURE.

What it is?

It is an open seed project in order to concentrate all european efforts and create seed school around Europe.

I started by France but everyone is welcome. What can make it successful will probably be the network.

I started with a simple 4 pages website, if i observe traction i will allow everyone to share in a commun space and will see what happens.

So spread the word about that initiative.

We are the 1st of April, i think it is a good time to start. Google has shown us the way.
Thank you folks.

Techcrunh released the news today here and the Twittersphere has RT the message at least hundred times.

What is the big deal?

Sequoia is the most famous VC firm on earth and Y Combinator has proved his model to be a successful one….why everyone is so surprised about it?I guess a lot of VC firms will join the bandwagon and i will not not be surprised to see TechStars annoucing the same kind of deal very soon.

Seedcamp wich is developing a quite similar model in Europe has been funding at start with 3 millions Euros by about 10 VCs to access  “premium dealflow” and “investment opportunity”.

I guess more and more entrepreneurs will play the angel as less money needs to be poured into companies these days and sweat equity is by far the key for a new entrepreneur.

Jean David Chamboredon from 3i has talked about this new model saying “successful entrepreneurs will be business angels of tomorrow”

We can interprete that Sequoia investment as a new trend for VC to outsource the early stage stage of development to small dedicated teams and focus on big deals only.

If Y Combinator has a great PR, it is not the case for all other small angel teams doing the same job and having difficulties to access a great audience. This is why we created CapitalBooster, we understood that new trend and wanted to be part of it.

If you are a Y Combinator copycat (i wish you are) and want to present yourself, feel free to contact us. We will be pleased to present your team and structure.

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Part time job : “Community Manager” wanted in the US/Europe/Asia to take care of Capital Booster activity.

This will be ideal as a 2nd job for passionate people about TECH and Investment.

If interested send : resume + Why i should pick you?  to jeancarlcohen AT gmail DOT com

Today we received a call from a friend who is looking to invest 250.000€  in startups before the 31st of May 09 (Location: Europe).

I believe this investment would be splitted in 3 or 4 investments.

If you want to apply contact me via twitter or email jeancarlcohen A T gmail DOT com.

i will follow you up.

Good luck

For those who are not ready, do not worry we have plenty of people willing to invest and you will get introduce by June the 01st.

We will soon be ready.

Do you know what is all about?

Not sure, you can find some infos on this excellent blog

I am proud to announce we are going to experiment the first ever crowd funding round in a real startup.

As the round is not closed yet i can not say to much about it but i will use that blog to comment the experience and let you know more on a regular basis …but imagine 80 shareholders (high profile = smart money people) sharing and building the same venture. It is WOW and i am sure you would like to be part of it.

I am really exciting about it, if we success in that ad-venture we might propose that new venture capital model to others startups.

It is hard and exciting to build the future but we need feedback from you.
I am willing to share in more details that experience, feel free to contact and leave a comment to let you know your thoughts.

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Are you a first time entrepreneur?

Are you looking to raise capital?

It is easy, please provide investors the following documents:

• wonderful resume,
• proofs that you’ve already had 3 successful IPO exits

and we are done.

Do i have to remind you that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page , Mark Zuckerberg and others are first time entrepreneur? They all created their venture just after school and all found people who took risk with them.

Why are all investors dreaming about the next Google, Ebay, Facebook…. and do not trust first time entrepreneurs?

There is a strong equity gap in the seed and early stage venture in Europe, we need more business angels, more early stage VCs and investors willing to build, create, write a (his)story.

“Looking at a data set of 1,018 companies, Mr. Gera determined that not a single entrepreneur received venture capital funding by submitting a business plan “over the transom.” By contrast, about 5 percent of entrepreneurs who knew the venture capitalist or gained a personal introduction received funding.

Asked what his finding meant for today’s entrepreneurs, Mr. Gera says, “In this economy, the social network will be even more necessary.”

This is the reason why we came with Capital Booster’s idea and hope to fill that gap.