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Reflection on Local Angel Investment From Inside Out

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We’ve used the gust.com platform to manage our documents, submissions, due diligence, and so forth since our first year, 2009, even before it was renamed and reconfigured. That’s worked out very well for us, which is part of the reason I blog on this site regularly. .

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Valuations 101: The Dave Berkus Method

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It has been used by angels since, however Dave updated the model for 2009 ACA Leaders Workshop in Richardson, TX. Dave’s valuation model first appeared in a book published by Harvard’s Howard Stevenson in the middle nineties. Here is his latest version. Characteristic. Add to Pre-money Valuation. Quality Management Team. Zero to $0.5

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Trends in Seed Stage Funding for Entrepreneurs

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I note a couple of trends: (1) Seed stage venture capital financing have been pretty stable over the past five years and (2) while the number of deals funded was a bit lower in 2009 and 2010 for most regions, the NYC Metro area had a significant increase in the number of seed stage deals funded. US Angel Investment – All Regions.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million.

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What is the Definition of a Seed Round or an A Round?

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I have come to realize that since the great tech boom started in 2009 and given the massive increase in first-time angels, first-time seed funds, first-time accelerators … the market is just filled with well-intentioned, but inexperience advice.

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Crowd Funding and Job Creation

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This conclusion was validated by many others including the Kauffman Foundation, which at the Obama Jobs Summit 2009 showed that virtually all net new jobs (~3 million per year) in the US are created by companies less than five years old.

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