Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. Angel investors and venture capitalists. Finding an angel investor or a venture capital group to support your business idea isn’t easy. See Also 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading. Amber Grant for Women. Sweepstakes.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Conway’s first fund, Angel Investors I, raised and invested in 1998, generated a 7 times return. For the past 15 years Conway has invested in more than 500 companies among which are Google, Facebook, Napster, Digg and many many others. His second fund raised and invested during 1999 saw a 1.5 times return.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

As a tech co-founder, I tend to approach getting involved in new ventures now very much as an angel investor would, and ask the following set of questions: 1. What is the product? 60s elevator pitch). How do you know it’s something that people want? Who else is on the team and what are their bio/credentials?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. SOPA would disproportionately alter the risk profile for new startups, which are thinly capitalized compared to the giants like Google and Facebook.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Barry is also an active angel investor with investments in a number of exciting start-ups, including Behind the Burner, ProFounder, RealDirect, Send-the-Trend, Slated, TapAd and Vator.tv. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Among his pathbreaking books are Yen!

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. When youhear people talking about a successful angel investor, theyre notsaying "He got a 4x liquidation preference." Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. “I’ve been an angel investor in private companies since the late 1990s, and I invested in eight start-ups.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   Today, we have an angel investor network, the Golden Angels, as well as an entrepreneurship center to spread the entrepreneurial word across campus. People are the whole game.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Angel investors earn higher returns than small VCs, who in turn earn higher returns than large VCs, let alone most other asset classes. Simon Lack reports in The Hedge Fund Mirage that from 1998 to 2010, hedge fund managers earned $379 billion in fees, while their investors earned only $70 billion in investing gains.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Alo Ghosh has over 35 years of experience on the frontiers of FinTech including teaching finance at Wharton, co-leading McKinsey's Finance practice, running a $4 Billion sovereign wealth fund, and is now an angel investor in 2 deep learning based FinTech startups. Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ).

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Plus he introduced us to one of the two angel investors who supplied our next round of funding. Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be satisfied with a demo and a verbal description of what you plan to do. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. We were a company whose wholem.o.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

When Larry and Sergey first began BackRub (which would eventually become Google), they didn’t run to a venture capital firm or angel investor. It was only in 1998 when Andy Bechtolsheim invested $100,000 in Google, Inc. They had proven themselves before they received an investment.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Are you seeking a loan or investment from an angel investor or venture capital firm? At Flavours Holidays], we have been specializing in cooking, Pilates, painting, photography, and language holidays in Italy since 1998,” she says. You’ll want a formal business plan that contains all the necessary information on your business.

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