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Suggestions for Angel Investors

Feld Thoughts

I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO of a company I invested in last week introducing him to a bunch of potential customers and partners. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. I generally made about one investment a month when I was active as an angel.

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10 CEOs Who Made Huge Mistakes

Up and Running

Ronald Johnson: Know your customers, or face losing them. Avoid making the same mistakes by carrying out focus groups, speaking with your customer base, and keeping communication open to see how your customers would react to big changes in the way you operate. . See Also 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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Tianyi Joe Zhu, Entrepreneur and Startup Advocate

The Startup Magazine

With the insight, resolve, and patience he shows with young companies, he demonstrates why angel investors earn the “angel” label. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Any investor who knew anything about books, didn’t invest. Pursue your passions: Start with the why.

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The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds

Feld Thoughts

The first release is underwhelming, but they iterate aggressively, with feedback and support from some of their angel investors. The feedback is “come back when you’ve made more progress with customers.” So the new investment gets 60%, the founders get 39.9%, and the $1m of seed money gets 0.1%.