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Angel Investors vs. Angel Groups

Business Plan Blog

Angel Investors vs. Angel Groups. What is an angel investor? Angels are often former or current entrepreneurs themselves, as well as business professionals and corporate leaders. About 225,000 people have made an angel investment in the last two years. Investments commonly run around $600,000.

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Surviving 2016 as a seed stage startup: Don’t batten down the hatches but take an umbrella.

Hippoland

In late 2008, I was about to turn in my 2 week resignation at Google to start a company when Sequoia sent out a presentation to their portfolio companies. From my purview at 500 Startups in talking with many seed investors – both angels and VCs – this is what I predict will happen in 2016.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies. Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles.