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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Others are just starting out, but the financial safety net they thought they had from a spouse’s job or highly appreciated stock options has disappeared. Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on.

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Angel Investors vs. Angel Groups

Business Plan Blog

It is a high net-worth individual who invests his or her own money directly into promising startup businesses in return for mostly equity share of the company. angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. What is an angel group?

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Other sources of capital. Friends & Family – High net-worth individuals with a passion for you and your industry. When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Once you’ve done that – then.

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Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future

Rob Go

I was surprised to find that it has been more than two years since my post summarizing the state of the seed stage market, and trying to bring a balanced view on the rise of Super Angels and Micro-VC’s. The venture capital market continues to be in transition, and a lot of changes have occurred in the early stages of the market.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? What about video and audio capture of family or digital albums?