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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. However, those angels constitute only about 4% of the estimated 7.1 million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more. approx 2004-09.

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What Angel Investors Look For: Facts Vs. Truths

Growthink Blog

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire just released its report on angel funding activity for the first half of 2011. And the news is.good! During the first half of this year, angel investments totaled $8.9 billion, an increase of 4.7 percent over the same period in 2010. What they DO know is this.

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Outlook for Start-ups | Knowledge @ Wharton

Campus Entrepreneurship

According to a report released in May by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit focused on entrepreneurship, the number of new businesses created between 2007 and 2009 was the highest level in 14 years, even exceeding the start-up boom of 1999-2000. in 2009 to $17.6 billion, a drop that came on the heels of a 26.2%

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. New England Investment Network. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. New England Investment Network. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

million and quit the night of the New Hampshire Primary, winning no delegates. You see, New Yorkers try to keep money out of politics in our election by using a matching program. And, call it what you will—impromptu, inspiring, ambitious—but the one thing you cannot call his Presidential campaign was successful. He raised $41.6

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Massachusetts. Mississippi.