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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

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5 Flocks Of Investors Looking For An Enticing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

– there have also been some major breakthroughs on Bitcoin’s native layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. In 2000, the company had slightly more than 22,000 workers in the United States and nearly 30,000 workers overseas. They are not alone.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness. (The alcohol, not the bagpiper.) Addieu, Get-A-Game, Kozmo.com.

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Finding The Right Angel Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 53 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.